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Masked Gunmen Rob Atlas 




$ 16,000 Taken in 41 Seconds 


by George Mendenhall 

Three gunmen wearing 
colored ski masks coman- 
deered the entire Atlas Sav¬ 
ings and Loan Association 
last Saturday in a daring and 
spectacular robbery. Atlas is 
America’s first Gay S&L. 
They escaped with $16,000 
which was scooped from 
cashier drawers. Three star¬ 
tled customers and eight em¬ 
ployees cooperated fully with 
the gun-waving intruders. Of¬ 
ficials estimate that $16,000 
was taken in an amazingly 
short 41 seconds. The entire 
entrance-to-exit robbery was 
recorded on video tape. 

Linda Rhode, Jr. Loan Of¬ 
ficer, said she thought some¬ 
one joking when she heard a 
male voice shout out at 
12:30 pm, “This is a holdup!” 
She looked up to see two 
masked men rushing through 
the lobby. A third stood at the 
New Accounts desk up front, 
holding a customer hostage 
and shouting instructions to 


everyone. The other two 
jumped through teller’s win¬ 
dows and ordered three 
tellers to open their drawers. 

When Stephen Tripp, Asst. 
Operations Officer, saw a 
man jump up on one teller’s 
window he began to say, “Ex¬ 
cuse me, sir, but . . .” and 
then realized what was hap¬ 
pening. Tripp was standing at 
a teller’s cage that had been 
temporarily closed by an em¬ 
ployee at lunch. Robbers 
scooped up the cash from 
drawers and one ordered 
Tripp to open his drawer. 
When he explained that he 
did not have the key, the gun¬ 
man shouted, “Open it up!” 
and struck Tripp across the 
face with the back of his 
hand. Tripp then called out to 
the absent teller who was in a 
nearby closet to come and 
open her drawer. She did and 
the cash was removed. 

HOW MUCH TIME? 

One robber called out, 


Celebration Marred 
by Fatal Accident 


by Allen White 

Darryl Anderson, 19, was 
killed Sunday in an accident 
which occurred at the conclu¬ 
sion of the Lesbian/Gay 
Freedom Day Parade. He is 
the first person to die in the 
history of the Gay parades 
and celebrations in San Fran¬ 
cisco. 

He was killed when he fell 
under the wheels of the 1- 
Beam float. The flatbed trailer 
rolled over his body. He died 
immediately. Reports indicate 
he was attempting to restart 
the generator that provided 
the power for the float’s 
sound system. He was not an 
employee of the I - Beam, and 
it is reported that he jumped 
from the crowd onto the float 
and lost his balance. The inci¬ 


dent took place at the end of 
the parade on Larkin Street. 

Jim Rivaldo of Pabich, Ri- 
valdo and Associates was a 
personal friend of Darryl An¬ 
derson and his family. He told 
the B.A.R. this week that An¬ 
derson was the oldest of sev¬ 
en children. His last job had 
been working at the Japanese 
Tea Garden. Darryl Anderson 
lived his life in the Haight- 
Fillmore area. Rivaldo de¬ 
scribed him as a young Black 
man who was a beautiful per¬ 
son and a great inspiration to 
those around him. 

Rivaldo clarified reports 
that two people who became 
hysterical at the time of the 
accident were the victim’s 


The body of Darryl Anderson, 19. who fell beneath the wheels of a flatbed 
trailer, stuns onlookers. _____ 


“Hurry up. How much time 
do we have?” Atlas President 
Gerald Flanagan explained 
that the quick exit was imper¬ 
ative, as the robbers knew 
that security trips were being 
set off by employees (em¬ 
ployees set off four trips dur¬ 
ing the holdup). The trips im¬ 
mediately alert an alarm com¬ 
pany, which notifies the 
police. Tripp said, “It seemed 
like an eternity, but it was all 
over in 41 seconds.” The 
men exited through the front 
door and, although they were 
pursued by Senior Loan Offi¬ 
cer Don DeCore, their car 
was evidently parked to the 
side of the bank and the get¬ 
away was instant. DeCore 
said he could not observe 
anything outside. The FBI is 
following a possible lead on a 
car, related by someone on 
the sidewalk. 

The Saturday circum¬ 
stances were unique in that 
Atlas employees were partly 
thinking about plans for its 
large float entered in Sun¬ 
day’s Freedom Day parade. 
The 10-3 Saturday hours are 

lover and sister. The woman 
was the 18 year old cousin of 
Anderson and the man was 
not his lover. His sister was at 
the scene of the accident, but 
because the body had been 
covered did not realize that 
the person killed was her 
brother until she returned 
home. 

Memorial services are 
scheduled for Saturday. Fur¬ 
ther information may be ob¬ 
tained by contacting Jim Ri¬ 
valdo at 863 - 5560. 

The Lesbian/Gay Freedom 
Day Committee issued a 
statement which was intro¬ 
duced into the record of the 
Board of Supervisors on 
Monday by Harry Britt. The 
Board adjourned in memory 
of Darryl Anderson. 

I-Beam attorney Steve 
Brown issued the following 
statement on behalf of “The 
I-Beam Family.” “We are all 
deeply saddened by the pass¬ 
ing of Darryl Anderson. We 
extend our deepest sympathy 
to his family and friends.” 

At press time Rivaldo an¬ 
nounced that he and friends 
will be raising money to con¬ 
tribute to funeral expenses. 


IN THIS ISSUE 


Leaving Gays out of City Cen¬ 
sus Analysis — Paul Lorch p. 4 

3 pages of Parade wrap-up and 
photos.pp- 12. 13. !4 

Settling up after love has flown: 
Who gets the color TV — 
George Mendenhall .... p.J6 

Tap, Type, Trip and Tune — En¬ 
tertainment Briefs.p. 23 

“Body by Fisher” — new 
photos by Fisher Ross . . p. 30 


Stephen Tripp and Linda Rhode, Atlas employees who 
first holdup. (Photo: Rink) 


a convenience to customers 
unable to make it to the S&L 
during the more hurried 
weekday hours. It is also a 
day with minimal street traffic 
in the area and other busi¬ 
nesses in the Atlas building 


are closed. Atlas is located 
1965 Market Street. 

Flanagan related that 
robbery was unique in that 
the entire bank was comman¬ 
deered in a para- military type 
(Continued on Page 5) 


Gay Deputies 
Harassed 

Broken Windows, Death Threat in Glen Park 

by George Mendenhall 

Two Gay deputies with the 
San Francisco Sheriffs De¬ 
partment who recently 
moved into former Supervisor 
Dan White’s former district 
have had their windows brok¬ 
en, and threatened on the 
street and in a hand-printed 
note. 


Gilbert Lemelin and his 
companion, John Abney, re¬ 
ceived a startling letter this 
week. It demanded that the 
men move out of their home 
or be burned out and was 
signed by “Queer Killers for a 
Nicer Neighborhood.” 

The men, who do not iden¬ 
tify themselves as “lovers.” 
bought a recently built 3- 
bedroom home in the Glen 
Park area in early May. Short¬ 
ly thereafter, Lemelin relates 
that the first incident occurred: 

“I was coming home from 
the supermarket. A couple 
guys were across the street 
and one called out, There 
goes one of those faggots.’ 1 
turned around and asked 
him, ‘Pardon me, what did 
you say?’ He replied, ‘You 
heard me.’ Then I stared at 
him and said, ‘I am not going 
to take any of your shit.’ 1 
made it evident that I was not 
going to put up with his giving 
me a bad time. With this, he 
backed off. I guess he thought 
I was going to be a push¬ 
over.” 

Two weeks later rocks 
came through two front win¬ 
dows. The windows were re¬ 


placed, but two weeks later a 
Lowenbrau beer bottle was 
tossed through one of the 
windows. That window has 
now been replaced with clear 
plastic. This week the letter 
arrived. The incidents have 
been reported to the San 
Francisco Police Department 
and the deputies have con¬ 
sulted with attorney Herb 
Donaldson. 

Abney became a deputy 
five years ago after then- 
Sheriff Richard Hongisto pub¬ 
licly urged Gay people to be¬ 
come deputies. Abney faced 
some hostility, as the Sheriffs’ 
Association had held a press 
conference to oppose the hir¬ 
ing of Gay deputies. Abney, 
ironically, went on to become 
President of that association. 
It is no secret within the de¬ 
partment that Abney and 
Lemelin are Gay. 

QUIET HOME LIFE 

Lemelin and Abney are in 
their mid-30’s and spend 
considerable time together at 
home. They do not give par¬ 
ties. Lemelin said, “The most 
noise we make is driving the 
car into the driveway. He 
said that while they are quiet, 
they both have guns and “we 
know how to use them. 
Neither of the men believes 
that their detractors know that 
they are deputies, as they do 
not wear their uniforms to 
and from the house. 

(Continued on next page) 


Parade photo by Mick Hicks 






















BAY AREA REPORTER JULY I,1982 PAGE 2 


Fundraising Nets Pride $134,000 


In recent weeks, The Pride 
Foundation has met with re¬ 
markable success in efforts to 
strengthen its financial base 
and provide support for pro¬ 
jected community programs. 

A private fundraiser held at 
the well-known “Teddy Bear” 
Broadway mansion in San 
Francisco netted over 


$32,000 from a select crowd 
of less than 70 people. The 
average contribution of over 
$500 per person rendered 
this a record-setting event 
based on per-capita gifts from 
a predominantly Gay group. 

Further support from the 
private sector has come to 
The Center in the form of 


local grants. Natomas Corpo¬ 
ration has given The Pride 
Foundation a $52,000 grant 
for The Center. The San 
Francisco-based Koret Foun¬ 
dation has nearly matched 
the above sum with a recent 
grant of $50,000 to bring this 
current increase in Pride’s 
fundraising to $134,000. 


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Gay Deputies Harassed 


(Continued from Page 1) 

Lemelin, a former San 
Francisco police officer, told 
Bay Area Reporter, “We do 
not have visitors. We moved 
in here for peace and tran¬ 
quility. I resent that peace be¬ 
ing taken away from me. I 
feel I am being denied my 
constitutional rights. To us, it 
is incredible that this kind of 


the conservative residents of 
the Glen Park area in what 
was then District 8. He later 
murdered Supervisor Harvey 
Milk and Mayor George Mos- 
cone. Lemelin says, “That is 
one of the things that is fright¬ 
ening about this. If we only 
knew who we are dealing 
with. The Dan White murders 


guessing, but both feel confi¬ 
dent that the incidents are not 
the work of a former prison 
inmate that seeks to harass 
them. 

It is obvious, Lemelin 
stresses, “that we are not in¬ 
terfering with anyone else’s 
life — except by our mere ex¬ 
istence. That is disturbing 
someone. What can you do 
about that? We hope that the 
breaking of windows and the 
letter are idle threats. But 
then again, there is some fear 
when you are threatened by 
the unknown.” 

The deputies’ story was 
given to B.A.R. because both 
men agree, “People should 
know that this kind of homo¬ 
phobia still exists.” They be¬ 
lieve that it is unlikely that 
whoever is bothering them 
reads B.A.R. , but they add, 
“We hope whoever it is does 
not pursue it any further. If 
they try to break into this 
house, they face a difficult 
problem. We have guns. We 
will act if we are forced to lock 


Text of Threatening Letter 

TO YOU GAYS: 

FOR FAR TOO LONG NOW, GAYS HAVE BEEN TAK¬ 
ING OVER OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. 

NOW IS THE TIME FOR US TO STOP YOU. 

MOVE IT OUT OR GET BURNED OUT. 

GO ANYWHERE ELSE BUT HERE. 

FROM FIRE TO FIRE, YOU WILL LOSE ONE WAY OR 
ANOTHER. 

QUEER KILLERS FORA 
NICER NEIGHBORHOOD 

BURN A FAG 


horns with someone.” 

Lemelin and Abney insist 
that they are not moving out 
of their Glen Park home. 
Abney said, “I am hardly go¬ 
ing to let anyone intimidate 
me, disrupting my life, mak¬ 
ing me uncomfortable. That is 
what they want. That is not 
going to happen.” Lemelin 


concluded, “We are not really 
certain what we will do, but 
for now, we are making our 
place as secure as possible. 
We cannot make it secure 
from fire — but we are not go¬ 
ing to board up the whole 
front of our house.” ■ 

George Mendenhall 


Foundation Declares War 


Solatium 

at ® THE BODY CENTER 


presents 


Gil Lemelin. Gay sheriff whose Glen Park home has been vandalized. 
(Photo: Rink) 


thing can still happen in San 
Francisco. I thought we lived 
in the 20th century.” Abney 
added, “We are not exactly 
having drag shows. We just 
want to live here quietly.” 

When pressured by B.A.R. 
about their lifestyle, Lemelin 
said, “I guess you are trying to 
identify what clone type we fit 
into.” He stressed that neither 
of them fit a mold. They do 
not go regularly to bars or to 
steam baths. They see an oc¬ 
casional play and like the 
opera. Sometimes they ven¬ 
ture forth to a South of Mar¬ 
ket event. Neither is politically 
active. What they really enjoy 
doing is being home, relax¬ 
ing. Both deny, however, 
that they have any talent for 
doing domestic chores. 

DAN WHITE 
TERRITORY 

Former city Supervisor Dan 
White was partially elected by 


are still fresh in my mind. 
These people, if there is more 
than one, are also not ra¬ 
tional.” 

There are other Gay “cou¬ 
ples” in the Glen Park area, 
but Lemelin and Abney say 
“we are the first in our block.” 
They also recognize that 
when the home was sold to 
two men, the neighbors prob¬ 
ably figured “they must be 
Gay.” Abney believes, “To 
someone we evidently were 
the straw that broke the 
camel’s back.” The threaten¬ 
ing letter included, “Gays 
have been taking over our 
neighborhood. Now is the 
time for us to stop you.” 

The police department is 
beginning its investigation of 
the Glen Park incidents. Both 
men believe that it is an “edu¬ 
cated person” because the 
bottle thrown “was Lowen- 
brau — not Ripple” and the 
letter is well printed. They are 


on Hepatitis B 

1000 People A Day Spreading Virulent Disease 


by Paul Lorch 


Mayor Dianne Feinstein yesterday (June 30) kicked off the “Knock Out Hepatitis” campaign in her 
City Hall offices. Joining her were San Francisco’s Director of Health Dr. Mervyn Silverman and 
Doctors David Altman, Chief of the GI Clinic at UCSF, and Patrick J. McGraw, founder and 
president of Resource Foundation. 


The Resource Foundation, 
a new nonprofit organization 
created to combat Hepatitis B 
in San Francisco, sponsored 
the press event to publicize 
their work. Headed up by 
Richard A. Smith, Resource 
Foundation at their 130 
Church Street site test people 
for their hepatitis status. The 
screening is free and of major 
significance to Gay men, who 
are a high risk population. 

Two tests tell drop-ins if 
they have the disease, if they 
have had it and are immune, 
or if they are susceptible. 

Resource Foundation peo¬ 
ple claim there are 600,000 
chronic cases of Hepatitis B 
(formerly called serum hepa¬ 
titis) in the U.S. The disease is 
highly contagious — many do 
not know they have it. In 
some it can last for years, and 
in 1 out of 1000 cases it is 
rapidly fatal. Within days the 
patient falls into a coma, the 
liver collapses, and the per¬ 
son dies. 

Dr. McGraw said his group 
became alarmed “when we 
realized that 10,000 San 
Franciscans may be walking 
around with Hepatitis B.” In 
the 3000 people screened 
since January by Resource, 
600 active cases were identi- 
• fied. 

Three groups are the high¬ 
est risk for Hepatitis B: highly 
sexually active men, straight 
and Gay but particularly Gay. 
Secondly, the Asian commu¬ 
nity, including those who 
have lived here for genera¬ 
tions as well as recent refu¬ 
gees from Southeast Asia. 
Pregnant Asian women with 
Hepatitis B transmit the dis¬ 
ease to their offspring. Third¬ 


ly, medical personnel includ¬ 
ing plasma and dialysis work¬ 
ers, medical technologists, 
nurses, dentists, and dental 
health care workers. 

Hepatitis B is a viral infec¬ 
tion resulting in liver inflam¬ 
mation. The infection may re¬ 
sult in no symptoms, mild, or 
severe symptoms. In 90% of 
the cases it ends spontane¬ 
ously, in the other 10% the 
disease remains chronic — 
alive and highly contagious. 

Once contracted, the virus 
is found in all bodily fluids in¬ 
cluding blood, semen, urine, 
stool, and saliva. As a result 
the disease is easily transmit¬ 
ted — especially in sex. All 
that need be contacted is a 
susceptible person’s body 
fluid. 

The symptoms of Hepatitis 
B are fever, fatigue, muscle or 
joint aches, nausea, loss of 
appetite, and abdominal 
pain. Very few experience 
jaundice, some patients’ urine 
darkens and their stool light¬ 
ens to a clay color. Some vic¬ 
tims show no symptoms at all. 

Moreover, an alarming 
number become carriers say 
the Resource people, and the 
only way to diagnose the dis¬ 
ease is through a blood test. 

The Resource Foundation 
is particularly anxious to iden¬ 
tify carriers (short term or 
lifers) of Hepatitis B (5 to 
10% of all cases) for two rea¬ 
sons: First, their liver is likely 
to be severely affected and 
they are possible cirrhosis vic¬ 
tims. Also, patients with 
chronic Hepatitis B are more 
likely to contract PHC liver 
cancer than the average pop¬ 
ulation. The second reason in 


identifying carriers is that it is 
from their “bad blood” that 
drug companies produce the 
Heptavax B vaccine. The Re¬ 
source Foundation rents its 
offices from Serex Interna¬ 
tional, Inc., a plasma pro¬ 
curement company. Serex 
donates $5 to the Resource 
Foundation for each unit of 
commercially-acceptable plas¬ 
ma drawn at its close by 
Center. 

Serex pays each donor for 
pints of their “bad blood.” Not 
ironically on a sliding scale, 
depending on how “bad” it is. 
Serex International, Inc. is a 
subsidiary of a Southern Cali¬ 
fornia pharmaceutical firm 
which is currently manufac¬ 
turing the vaccine. Heptavax 
B vaccine will be available 
soon, also purchasable on a 
sliding scale. Resource Foun¬ 
dation will put on a vaccine- 
innoculation drive later this 
summer or early fall. An in- 
noculation reportedly could 
cost anywhere from $100 to 
$250. 

Hence, the overall thrust 
can be looked at as a combi¬ 
nation of public service and 
sound business practices. The 
only way to cure carriers is by 
manufacturing the vaccine. 
The only way to produce the 
vaccine is from buying the 
tainted plasma from the 
carriers. Until synthetics are 
discovered, carriers will be 
selling their scourge and buy¬ 
ing back their good health — 
who knows, maybe with their 
very own transmogrified 
viruses. 

(This piece was developed 
from a Resource Foundation 
media kit. Their phone is 
864-0550, or consult pour 
own physician.) ■ 























GRAND OPENING — 
JULY 4th WEEKEND 




Russian River’s newest bar — (Va mile west of Fifes) 


BAY AREA REPORTER JULY I, 1982 PAGE 3 
























City Planning and the 
Changing Population 

Where are the Gays and Lesbians? 

by Paul Lorch 

Statistics give the numbers; what they mean depends upon who’s talking. 

.^ une re P or t was issued by the San Francisco Department of City Planning. It was entitled 
Residence and broke into three divisions: 1 - Background Data & Needs Analysis, II - Objectives & 
Policies, III - Implementation Programs & Activities. 


It followed closely a report 
issued July 29, 1981, by the 
Citizens Housing Task Force. 

Both reports sift the popu¬ 
lation figures derived from the 
1970 and 1980 US Census. 
Both seek to analyze the 
trends, and the language is 
remarkably — if not suspi¬ 
ciously — the same. Nowhere 
is any mention made of the 
residence or influx of Gay 
men and Lesbians into the 
city. 

Over the past decade the 
population of San Francisco 
has decreased by 36,700 
(from 715,674 in 1970 to 
678,974 in 1980. The popu¬ 
lation of San Francisco today 
is about the same as it was 
during World War II. 

Meanwhile, as the overall 
numbers have decreased, the 
number of households have 
increased. According to the 
Citizens Task Force, a decline 
by 14,660 between 1970 and 
1980 and by 3,756 according 
to the City Planning Depart¬ 
ment. The increase of house¬ 
holds would be normal if the 
population were increasing. 
But it is highly unusual when 
people are leaving and more 
persons are setting up house¬ 
keeping. 

Who has been leaving? To 
begin with, children — from 
106,924 enrolled in schools 
to 83,700 in 1980. Enroll¬ 
ment in SF public schools has 
dropped by 25,000 in the 
decade. Similarly, large fami¬ 
lies (5 plus persons) have 
been dropping. 


Both reports acknowledge 
that the Asian population has 
grown dramatically in the 
decade from 13.6% to 
21.7% of the population. 
The Southeast Asian refugees 
have set up households which 
are heavily “childrened.” 

Still the question to be an¬ 
swered is with all those peo¬ 
ple leaving, all those fewer 
children, and all those new 
households, who’s making 
the difference? 

Between the census takings 
young adults have made up a 
larger percentage of San 
Francisco’s population in¬ 
crease. Ages 25 to 29 up by 
18,000. Ages 30 to 34 up by 
25,594. Ages 35 to 44 up by 
1,146. People between 25 
and 44 compose 34% of the 
city’s dwellers. In 1970 they 
were 26% of the population. 
In 1980 statewide the same 
age group composes 30% of 
the people. The only other 
age group increasing in San 
Francisco is those over 75 (up 
by 6,300 in the decade). 

Now comes the rub. Who 
are the new young adults who 
are starting new households? 
Both the Planning Depart¬ 
ment and the Citizens Hous¬ 
ing Task Force conclude that 
divorce and separation are 
causing the gap in fewer peo¬ 
ple (although more young 
adults) and the greater de¬ 
mand on the city’s housing 
stock. Say the Citizen’s Task 
Force: 

“Because of the massive 
middle-class exodus to the 


suburbs over the past 20 
years, the number of new 
households formed by the 
departure of young adults 
from their families is relatively 
small in San Francisco. Di¬ 
vorces and separations play a 
much greater role.” They ex- i 
plain, . . the divorce rate ( 
has continued to climb ... In 
addition, increased social ac¬ 
ceptance of forms of cohabi¬ 
tation and coupling other 
than nuclear families means 
that separations occur for 
which no record exists. These 
separations may be more 
common than legal divorces. 
We estimate that such non- 
traditional households gen¬ 
erate as much as another 
2,000 separations annually.” 

“Divorces and separations 
lead to more people shopping 
around for housing,” the re¬ 
port continues, “especially 
rental accommodation.” It re¬ 
mains a heterosexual world. 

The June 1982 Planning 
Department report quotes the 
Citizens Task Force and con¬ 
cludes, “The increase in 
smaller households is also 
partially caused by the break¬ 
up of larger households 
through divorce and separa¬ 
tion.” 

The 1980 Census tells both 
groups that over 41% of the 
city’s households are occu¬ 
pied by a single individual. A 
large elderly and a significant 
young adult population make 
up the single or small house¬ 
holds. The extension is that 
the young adults are either 
divorced or separated hetero¬ 
sexuals. ■ 



Lovers for fifteen months, Bill Walker and Christopher 
Craig have bicycled out of Wichita, Kansas, to begin a mo¬ 
mentous world tour. After meeting at a Dignity meeting in 
Wichita, their relationship became increasingly serious, so 
Bill told Christopher that he was leaving soon on a 2V2-year 
bicycle tour of over 40 countries and 6 continents. Christo¬ 
pher said that he could make the commitment to be lovers 
and cycle-buddies. 

They arrived in San Francisco June 7 for a few days after 
the adventure of a bicycle drive from the heart of the 
Midwest. Usually too tired for sex at the end of long days on 
the road, they were ecstatic to be able to enjoy each other as 
completely as possible — instead of just falling asleep on 
each other. 

When photographed on Castro Street, they were prepar¬ 
ing to pack up their cycles for the flight to Hawaii. After see¬ 
ing as much of the Hawaiian Islands as possible from their 
bike seats, they will move on to New Zealand and Australia. 
Traveling then on a route from Southeast Asia to India and 
Iran, they plan to tour Africa and Europe. 

Sponsored by the Peugeot Bicycle Company as far as that 
their bicycles and outfits were provided, they have been able 
to stay at various Gay homes and churches. Jhey excitedly 
relate their expectations and feelings of being together on 
their world bike tour. “Out” to their parents, both displayed 
the most positive, natural emotions of love and support, 
which would be needed for any world traveling pair, but 
especially oh a strenuous and potentially hazardous 2V2- 
year bicycle excursion. 


Gay Cyclists Tour World 


World touring cyclists Bill Walker and Christopher Craig stop off in the 
Castro on their way west. (Photo: Rink) 


Police Directed to Recruit 
Gay Officers 


Kaposi’s Sarcoma 
Foundation Opens 


The city’s Police Commis¬ 
sion has directed the Police 
Department to “develop a 
positive recruiting effort 
through continuous outreach 
to and in cooperation with the 
Lesbian/Gay community.” 

The unanimous decision 
supports a Board of Super¬ 
visors policy statement adopt¬ 
ed (also unanimously) three 
months ago that called for a 
police recruit program within 
the department. The resolu¬ 
tion was authored by Super¬ 
visor Richard Hongisto. 

Police Chief Con Murphy 
told Stonewall Gay Demo¬ 
cratic Club members in June 
“We are not” when asked if 
he was going to initiate such a 
recruitment program. He 
repeated the “No” policy in a 
meeting between Gay leaders 
and the Mayor, where his po¬ 
sition was challenged by Bay 
Area Reporter editor Paul 
Lorch and Harvey Milk Club 
president Gwenn Craig. The 
chief is not obligated by city 
charter to follow the policy 
statements of the Board. He 
is, however, under direct 
supervision of the Mayor — 
who signed the city policy 
statement — and the Police 
Commission. 

The commission resolution 
called attention to the city’s 
nondiscrimination policy set 
by the Board in 1980 and 
pleaded for “sensitivity on the 


part of the police toward Les¬ 
bian and Gay citizens.” It said 
“it is important for a police 
force to reflect closely as pos¬ 
sible the general population 
that it serves.” 

Officer Paul Seidler, cur¬ 
rently the Gay liaison on the 
Police/Community Relations 
unit, has been directed by 
Murphy to implement the res¬ 
olution. Seidler currently rep¬ 
resents the department as the 
National Secretary of the Na¬ 
tional Association of Police/ 
Community Relations Offi¬ 
cers and serves as an officer 
of that group’s western re¬ 
gion. 

The Police Commission 
resolution was introduced by 
member Jo Daly, an upfront 
Lesbian activist. She said she 
is pleased that the resolution 
directly calls for action from 
Chief Murphy and empha¬ 
sized that it is the commission 
that sets police policy. 

In recent years a low-key 
recruitment of Gay people 
has been undertaken by a pri¬ 
vate group, Gay Outreach. 
This group is less active, with 
its current functions at a mini¬ 
mum. Gay Outreach (431 - 
6500) is still offering consulta¬ 
tions with those seeking posi¬ 
tions on the police force. 
Also, police recruiters made a 
positive outreach to Gays and 
Lesbians in 1980. 


The Kaposi’s Sarcoma Re¬ 
search and Education Foun¬ 
dation, a nonprofit corpora¬ 
tion established in response to 
the current outbreak of im¬ 
mune-deficiency diseases, 
has opened an office on Cas¬ 
tro Street. Contributions of 
office furniture and supplies 
are urgently needed, as well 
as volunteers to staff the 
office. 

According to Dr. Marcus 
Conant, President of the 
Foundation and co-director 
of the Kaposi’s Sarcoma Clin¬ 
ic, the primary goal of the 
Foundation is to provide a 
strong support base for 
patients with KS, pneumo- 


State law requires all em¬ 
ployers to carry Worker’s 
Compensation Insurance for 
“on-the-job” injuries. .The 
rate for all insurance compa¬ 
nies is the same and is set by 
the state. Currently for bars 
and restaurants, employers 
pay $3.67 for each $100 pay¬ 
roll. This employee benefit is 
a major expense for all restau¬ 
rants. However, there are 
ways of cutting this expense. 


cystis pneumonia, and related 
diseases. In addition, the 
Foundation is launching a 
major public education and 
information program begin¬ 
ning on Lesbian and Gay 
Freedom Day with the distri¬ 
bution of a new pamphlet de¬ 
scribing Kaposi’s sarcoma and 
pneumocystis pneumonia. 
The Foundation also hopes to 
provide funding for medical 
research into the causes and 
treatment of immune-defi¬ 
ciency diseases. Approxi¬ 
mately 400 cases of KS or re¬ 
lated illnesses have been diag¬ 
nosed nationally. 

Members of the KSREF 
Board of Directors include Dr. 


Schmidt & Schmidt Insur¬ 
ance Associates recently 
acknowledged several popu¬ 
lar Gay bars and restaurants 
for their excellence in employ¬ 
ee safety. Those recognized 
for their superior safety rec¬ 
ords, all members of a bar/ 
restaurant safety group writ¬ 
ten through the Schmidt 
agency, were Burton’s, Chez 
Mollet, The Cruiser, Fickle 
Fox, Ivy’s, Pie Works, Mil- 


Conant, Dr. Paul Volberding 
(Chief of Oncology at S.F. 
General Hospital), attorney 
Franklin Jacobson, B A R. 
Publisher Bob Ross, business¬ 
man Richard Keller, Califor¬ 
nia Democratic Council Presi¬ 
dent Lia Belli, and Assembly- 
man Art Agnos’ Administra¬ 
tive Assistant, Cleve Jones. 

The KSREF office is locat¬ 
ed at 520 Castro Street be¬ 
tween 18th and 19th Streets. 
The telephone number is 
864-4376. 

Financial contributions 
should be mailed to KSREF 
at: 470 Castro Street # 207, 
Box 3360, San Francisco 
94114. 


dred Pierce’, Trinity Place, 
and the Trocadero Transfer. 

John Schmidt, president of 
Schmidt & Schmidt, said, 
“For providing safe working 
conditions, employee train¬ 
ing, accident prevention, and 
because of their good man¬ 
agement, these business re¬ 
duced their Worker’s Com¬ 
pensation cost approximately 
20% to40%.” 


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Berkeley, CA 

Gay men “came out” for 
the first time in the anti¬ 
nuclear arena, forming a visi¬ 
ble unity at the recent block¬ 
ade Lawrence Livermore Na¬ 
tional Weapons Laboratories, 
where some 1300 blockaders 
were arrested. The Gay pres¬ 
ence at Monday’s action in¬ 
cluded the Sisters of Per¬ 
petual Indulgence and three 
“affinity groups” of Gay men 
calling themselves The Body 
Electric, Queers, and Oz. 

The Queers affinity group 
distributed nearly 1000 pink 
triangles for the male block¬ 
aders to wear in order to 
avoid the singling out of Gay 
men who were arrested at the 
blockade. Their leaflet read, 
“We want support for being 
openly Gay men while we are 
blockading and going to jail.” 

The Body Electric display¬ 
ed a large banner, identifying 
the group’s Gay affinity. 
Spokesperson for Body Elec¬ 
tric Michael Merrill explained 
the group’s motives. “We 


wanted to form an affinity 
group, and we wanted its af¬ 
finity to be that we are Gay 
men.” 

Merrill felt that the so-called 
affinity group process used at 
the blockade was especially 
supportive of the needs as 
well as the sensibilities of Gay 
men who worked in close 
groups and exercised what 
Merrill termed a “feminist 
based approach” to making 
decisions and acting on them. 

Speaking for the Sisters of 
Perpetual Indulgence, Sister 
Down On My Knees explain¬ 
ed their presence as openly 
Gay men. The sister said, 
“We believe that all segments 
of society should be involved 
in working toward the cause.” 
He said that Gay men “have 
never been a part of the 
movement until now.” Also 
present were Sister Mission¬ 
ary Position and Sister Boom 
Boom. 

Aside from their praise of 
the blue tone of the guard’s 
uniforms, however, the sisters 
led a very serious crusade for 


a very serious cause. 

The Livermore Labs, which 
have designed the Neutron 
Bomb, the MX Missile, and 
America’s other nuclear 
weapons, was the site of a 
May & Mother’s Day block¬ 
ade of women, in which Les¬ 
bian groups were influential. 
This Monday, however. Gay 
men joined their counterparts 
in what they see as an impor¬ 
tant struggle. 

While both Gays and 
straights reportedly wore pink 
triangles, and arrests were 
made indiscriminately, one 
source from the legal collec¬ 
tive of the Livermore Action 
Group indicated that two men 
out of three alias Harvev 
Milks had been separated 
from the group of arrestees 
for a period of time. 

The incident was brought 
to the attention of all arrestees 
and concern over the matter 
had been reported, but at last 
check, the source indicated 
that the men had been-re¬ 
united with the group. ■ 
Peter Jake 


Coors Beer Still Trying Comeback 


“We age Coors at the brew¬ 
ery, not in the store” is the lat¬ 
est advertising slogan being 
tested by Coors Brewery of 
Golden, Colorado. The com¬ 
pany’s profits dropped an¬ 
other 20% in 1981 and its 
sales took a 3.8% drop. Bud- 
weiser still leads in California, 
which for years had Coors at 
the top in sales. 

Coors’ image has been tar¬ 
nished over the years as its 
Brewery Workers union was 
dissolved after a long a bitter 
strike. At the time, the com¬ 
pany was accused of being 


anti-Gay and of hiring almost 
exclusively white males. Gay 
activists (Harvey Milk used 
Coors as one of his constant 
targets) in California, center¬ 
ing in San Francisco, charged 
that Coors used questions 
about prospective employees’ 
sex lives in its lie-detector 
testing. The company still has 
a required lie-detector test but 
has attempted to ease the 
pain of a Gay boycott by ad¬ 
vertising in some Gay news¬ 
papers. 

Peter Coors, president of 
the company’s sales depart¬ 


ment, says optimistically, 
“The phone will ring off the 
hook when our new advertis¬ 
ing campaign starts.” 

Coors is currently suing a 
local Gay activist group, Soli¬ 
darity, and the head of the 
local Coors boycott effort, 
labor activist Howard Wal¬ 
lace, for allegedly threatening 
violence against Coors at the 
1981 KQED-TV auction. 
(“60 Minutes,” the popular 
CBS-TV show, will soon be 
filming a segment about the 
Coors boycott in California.) 

GM 


(Continued from Page 1) 


George Mendenhall 


Gunmen Rob Atlas 


Anyone who thinks this is an 
easy crime simply does not 
know the statistics.” The FBI 
has thoroughly investigated 
the Atlas robbery. How much 
they learned from interviews 
with employees and the video 
tape and what possible leads 
that they have is confidential. 
It is known that some of the 
bills had registered, traceable 
numbers. 

SECURITY EVALUATED 

Bay Area Reporter’s evalu¬ 
ation of the robbery revealed 
three problem areas of secur¬ 
ity that Atlas staff members 
will be evaluating and report¬ 
ing at a July 5 Board of Direc¬ 
tors meeting: 

Security Guards: Atlas 
has only had a security guard 
on duty during special events, 
not during normal operative 
business hours. It has now 
hired a guard who will be on 
duty at all times. President 
Flanagan said that it is not un¬ 
common for a small S&L to 
operate without a guard. 

DeCore explained that a 
guard is not always an advan¬ 
tage. Although he said the 
presence of a guard may 
make customers feel more se¬ 
cure and deter some holdups, 
there is also a possible disad¬ 
vantage. He related that rob¬ 
bers, who would noramally 
take cash without interrup¬ 
tion, might exchange gunfire 
with an armed guard, endan¬ 
gering others. 

Alarm System: Four em¬ 
ployees set off trips that alert¬ 
ed the SF Fire and Burglar 
Protection Service, but the re¬ 
sponse time was surprisingly 
slow. Employees told B.A.R. 
that the “police” called five 
minutes after the alarms went 
off and asked, “Is everything 
okay now?” They said it was 
only after this call-back that 
the police appeared — 2 min¬ 
utes later. 

When this reporter dis¬ 
cussed the matter with police 
dispatcher Robbie Corley, he 
learned that the police do not 
call back when notified by an 
alarm service but immediately 
dispatch a car to the location. 
He said that, in reality, some- 


teller window is closed and 
the excess amount is 
skimmed off and place in a 
vault. 

B.A.R. studied the Mini¬ 
mum Security Procedures 
guidelines of the Federal De¬ 
posit Insurance Corporation 
and found that Atlas generally 
has an exceptional security 
system. For example, it has 
seven video cameras where 
many S&L’s have only one. 
There are alarm trips placed 
everywhere. Employees are 
thoroughly trained in weekly 
meetings as to how to react 
during holdups. Flanagan ap¬ 
pears to be correct when he 
related, “We have a highly 
sophisticated system. The 
best in the current security 
state-of-the-art.” 

DeCore said, “You cooper¬ 
ate when someone is waving 
a gun around, and two of the 
men had guns.” He was 
pleased that no one became 
hysterical. Tripp added, 
“Everyone did just what they 
were supposed to do. In a 
situation like this you just 
stand back and let them have 
what they want. Our lives is 
what is important. If it hap¬ 
pened again I would want 
every employee to react in 
the same way.” 

There is a special ambience 
at Atlas, according to Tripp: 
“I never really thought about 
it before but everyone here 
really cares about everyone 
else. I had a parental instinct 
about it all. I was so glad that 
none of my ‘kids’ got hurt.” 
Rhode added, “If everyone 
had not remained calm there 
might have been a different 
outcome. We did what we 
had to do. It wasn’t until after 
they left that we realized fully 
what had happened.” 

Flanagan expressed pride 
in his employees: “The video 
tape and subsequent inter¬ 
views indicated that every 
employee was calm and high¬ 
ly professional. There was no 
panic whatsoever.” Even one 
of the customers who had 
been held at gunpoint told 
employees afterwards that he 
was amazed how efficient 
they were. He said he felt 
even better about America’s 
first Gay savings and loan 
association. g 


Tellers recovering from Saturday’s Atlas holdup. (Photo: Rink) 


We just remodeled 
the Nautilus 
comer... 


... and cut 

the cost of joining. 


operation. Normally holdups 
are quietly done at a single 
teller’s window. He said that 
such a robbery runs a risk of 
entering customers. Three 
customers were on the prem¬ 
ises and a fourth, entering at 
the time, froze at the entrance 
during the operation. An¬ 
other customer began to 
enter, saw hands extended in 
the air, and made a quick 
exit. 


FBI investigator John Hoos 
stated that over 75% of the 
S&L robberies are solved. He 
said, “There is a very high 
chance of getting caught and 
the conviction rate is high. 


times the private alarm 
companies are slow in notify¬ 
ing the police. He suggested 
that the call-back was from 
the alarm company itself who 
had not notified the police 
when alerted. 


Cash Flow: One bank offi¬ 
cial said that less money 
would now be kept at the tell¬ 
er’s cages. The $16,000 is 
covered by Aetna Insurance, 
but is possibly too large an 
amount to have exposed at 
one time. There is a common 
bank procedure in which any 
amount that appears to be 
“excessive” is recognized by a 
teller and a bank officer. The 


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VOL. XII NO. 26 JULY I, 1982 NEXT ISSUE OUT: JULY 8 NEXT DEADLINE: JULY 2 


VIEWPOINT 


LETTERS 


Gay Cops/Homosexual Cops 

Michael Denneny wrote in Christopher Street 18 months ago: 
“Homosexuality and Gay are not the same thing; Gay is when 
you decide to make an issue of it.” 

He expands his dichotomy with “ ‘homosexual’ is properly an 
adjective; it describes something you do. ‘Gay’ is a noun; it 
names something you are. ” 

Millions are Gay, many more millions are homosexual be¬ 
cause their sexual preference is not a central part of their 
identity. Their homosexuality is but a mere part of their be¬ 
havior. The same holds true of Lesbian; it is something a wo¬ 
man is, much more than how she sexes. 

This is not a new distinction, but its blurring surfaced recently 
in the discussions around recruiting Gay cops for the S.F.P.D. 
Chief Con Murphy twice in recent weeks announced he was 
doing nothing to recruit Gay candidates. 

By law he can’t do anything to keep them out (at least not 
for the record), but he isn’t going to lift a finger to get them in. 

He even refuses to acknowledge this is a departure from 
previous PD recruiting practices. 

Last month the Board of Supervisors passed a resolution in¬ 
troduced by Richard Hongisto urging the PD to recruit Gays 
and Lesbians as vigorously as they would any other minority. 
The Chief has let it be known that he is not under the authority 
of the Board and can ignore their policy. (He can’t, however, 
ignore their budget decisions. And when that date comes 
around, they might still remember his repudiation of their 
wishes.) But the Chief is wont to talk in more marshmallow 
terms and will say something to the effect that he didn’t have 
the money to implement their wishes. Scam is, who ever said it 
would cost money, save the Chief? Although I don’t doubt nig¬ 
gardly bureaucrats would spend $5,000 to prove they haven’t 
got 550 for something they don’t want to put their backs 
behind. 

Chief Murphy and his captains are well aware they have 
homosexual cops in their ranks. One captain even gave a count 
of the number at his station. Joke is everyone supposedly 
knows what they do but nobody on the outside knows who 
they are. 

Our concern is — and always has been — not what they do 
homosexually (who cares in 1982) nor, for that matter, what 
their names are, but are they men and women who know 
themselves as this particular Gay man. Does this or that woman 
experience her humanness through being a Lesbian. 

And the same holds true for any kind of minority outreach, 
or ethnic affirmative action. What is the point of seeking out an 
Asian who doesn’t experience herself both as a woman and an 
Asian? This is not to say that these people should assume them¬ 
selves — but whether one actually does or does not is a fact. 

The point of outreach by a bastion of all-white males is not 
merely to change the shades of complexion or the minimals of 
gender, but the thinking, the attitudes, the sensitivities. 

If the Blacks jn police work add nothing, are no more than 
storm troopers with painted on Black faces — no advance has 
been made. And if the homosexuals on board are no more than 
homosexuals with painted on heterosexual faces, we aren’t 
even standing still, we’re going backwards. 

The homosexuals of San Francisco are amply served with the 
makeup of the Police Department as it is. The Gays and Lesbi¬ 
ans of San Francisco are not. And after months of negotiating 
with the PD brass — to iron out nagging misunderstandings, the 
Gay community gets a pie in the face. The Chief tells us he will 
not reach out for Gay candidates. That is until he is told to by 
the people for whom he works, and by his boss who tells him 
what he is to do o.r not do. 

At press time that order had officially been delivered to Chief 
Con Murphy. 

P. Lorch 


HOW LONG IS HUNG 

★ Like a lot of gay men I read a lot of gay literature. 
Well, maybe not literature — all right, pornography. 
Blueboy, Mandate, Numbers, Honcho . . . You get 
the picture. These magazines always feature layouts 
of men with BIG COCKS. Their fiction and letters are 
always centered around BIG COCKS. Wonderful. I 
love big cocks. The problem is that I don’t have one. I 
know a lot of people who don’t have one. Too bad for 
us, you say? A personal problem? I admit it isn’t a 
pleasant subject. When gay men hear about cocks 
they want to hear about BIG COCKS, I’m sure that 
no one will question the fact that to not be well hung is 
one of life’s major bummers. It’s one of those things 
God did to you and you don’t know why. Okay — we 
can see it’s a problem. Now, what to do about it? 
Accept it, you say? Don’t worry about it? It’s not how 
much you have but what you do with it? Bullshit! Try 
believing that the next time you’re thumbing through 
one of the magazines mentioned above. 

Anyone who reads these magazines has no doubt 
come across that advertisement (a full page) which 
promises to enlarge your penis at least three inches. 
This device costs $39.95. Has anyone out there tried 
it? Does it work? Is it a rip-off? There are several other 
penis enlargers being advertised in these mags. Are 
they safe? I’d be very interested in reading about other 
men’s experiences with these products. C’mon, guys; 
write in. 

And what about cockrings? Sure, they make every¬ 
thing look better, but are they doing any damage to 
my body? Is it okay to wear them all the time? I notice 
that orgasms are less intense with one on. Does this 
mean anything? 

A sex column answering these kinds of questions 
would be great. Meanwhile, I’d like to hear what your 
readers have to say. 

Andy Fox 
Berkeley, CA 


EVEN MORE MAD 

★ In response to Whipping Mad, put this in your gun 
and shoot it. 

You’re just plain sick! 

Guns mean one thing in this world, and that is 
KILL! Sex to me is a big fat cock, not a gun or a knife. 
I’m very much into South of Market, and if you want 
to call me a nelly queen, go ahead! First of all, I’m not 
a nelly queen or I’d be married to Prince Charles and 
very rich. 

So I guess I’m still a lady in waiting! And secondly, I 
may be nelly, as you put it, but I’ll take my big fat rod 
and give you the best fuck you ever had, and 1 don’t 
need a gun and I only weight 115 pounds. 

As for “If you don’t like it, don’t look,” if it’s staring 
you right in the face and you’re not blind you see it; 
right? 

I’ve lived in this city for three years and I’ve seen a 
lot at 22. But never have I seen something as disgust¬ 
ing as those photos. If you want to see pics like that, 
hang them in your own house, not where I’ve got to 
see them in a place where I go to get away from all the 
violence I see on the street. 


So, Rick Leathers, give me a break! 


Jeffrey L. Wilmouth 
San Francisco 


DANCE CLASSES 

★ I’m interested in organizing a series of couple- 
dance classes for gay people. I have ideas, enthusi¬ 
asm, and other things necessary to bring the project 
about, but I do not have the expertise to teach a large 


group myself. I thought that among your readers 
there might be found someone who does. Since a 
small fee will be charged those people taking the 
classes, a small salary will be available. I can be 
reached at 983-1296 (work phone) or 433-0862 by 
anyone who would like to talk to me about this 
matter. 

Gary Pedler 
San Francisco 


KS FOUNDATION 

★ The Board of Directors of the Kaposi’s Sarcoma 
Research and Education Foundation wish to publicly 
thank Joe’s Shows, The Sisters of Perpetual Indul¬ 
gence, and Headlines for their production of the Sec¬ 
ond Annual Dog Show and Parade to benefit the 
Kaposi’s Sarcoma Foundation. 

The Dog Show provided an afternoon of entertain¬ 
ment that raised urgently needed funds and helped to 
alert our community to the threat posed by KS and 
related diseases. 

In the months and years ahead, the KS Founda¬ 
tion will be working hard to support the KS patients, 
coordinate public education programs, and fund 
medical research. 

Franklin Jacobson, Secretary 
KSREF 
San Francisco 


FIGURES UP FOR GRABS 

★ Regarding your issue of June 17, Allen White in 
his article titled “Dog Show/ Man Show Titillate Cas¬ 
tro” states on page four, "... while the votes were be¬ 
ing tallied, money was raised for the primary benefi¬ 
ciary of the day, the KS Cancer Foundation. Almost 
$2500 was collected.” 

Same issue, page twenty-nine, Mr. Marcus in his 
column writes that “. . . Bobbi Campbell made a stir¬ 
ring, dignified and warning speech regarding Kaposi’s 
sarcoma while the Sisters of P.I. collected donations; 
in all, close to $1600 was collected . . .” 

Last Sunday night, June 20, at the End-Up’s Jock 
Strap Contest, Sister Boom -Boom in person states to 
the crowd that "... we raised $3000 for the Kaposi’s 
Sarcoma Cancer Clinic at last Sunday’s Dog 
Show ...” 

Perhaps Allen White, Mr. Marcus, and Sister 
Boom-Boom are writing and speaking of different 
Dog Shows. If not, who is the Gay community to rely 
on for accurate information regarding fundraisers. 

And who shall verify that the beneficiaries are in 
fact receiving all funds agreed to? 

Perhaps the organizers of these events will enlight¬ 
en us as to the ethics they follow when staging fund¬ 
raisers such as the Dog Show. I’m curious, is anyone 
else? 

Robert Casetta 
San Francisco 

ED. NOTE: Your points are well taken. One thing you can 
be sure of, our writers can’t be accused of collusion. As far 
as Boom-Boom claims all promoters are a bit of a boom, 
boom, boom. 

As with all fundraising groups, we have few safeguards. 
All we have is the integrity of the group (perceived or proven 
over the years). The second and the more valid is the watch¬ 
dog interest of the community in general. The books should 
be open for anyone wishing to examine them, and any col¬ 
lecting agency has an obligation to produce a periodic finan¬ 
cial report. There have been — and there continues to be — 
some shocking stewards in our vineyard. 

P. Lorch 



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LETTERS 


AN ELDER’S REPLY 

★ John Rowberry, editor of Drummer, is completely 
correct in saying the magazine carries photos of older 
gay men. Unfortunately, 1 was given one day’s notice 
by one of the Parade people to provide something. I 
understood I’d be contacted before publication, if it 
were used, but owing to their workload they couldn’t. 

Mr. Rowberry’s sincerity is obvious. Frankly, I’d say 
the reason I don’t look at his magazine any more is 
the message it unintentionally preaches seems to be: 
be a dominant, older leatherman and you’ll be 
acceptable in younger gay circles. Each to their own 
taste, but it seems to me regrettable when you can 
only be accepted on this basis. 

Of course, the problem is much bigger than just the 
gay world. In most parts of the world older people are 
commonly regarded of value and respect. This coun¬ 
try, like most industrialized ones, views them as re¬ 
pulsive, useless, and best kept out of sight. And, the 
gay world’s obsession with being 30 forever is simply 
an aim of American society in general. 

Once again, apologies to Mr. Rowberry. He incon¬ 
testably means well. It’s not his fault that the message 
Drummer conveys is disheartening for those older gay 
men who have no flair for flagellation. 

Jordan Lee 
San Francisco 

P.S. Either your proofreader or Mr. Rowberry kept 
getting my name wrong. However, this happens so 
often I’ve ceased to struggle in the matter. 


AND NOW, HOW TO SAY IT 

★ Please, please, PLEASE!!! 

For those called upon to pronounce in public the 
name of the dreaded new disease afflicting gay men, 
ask a Hungarian (me, for example) — and you will be 
told that the accent is on the first syllable, and that 
there is no “r” anywhere in the name of the doctor 
now associated with this cancer. It is Kaposi (KAH- 
poh-shee), and not Karposi (kar-POH-zee, or any 
other variation). 

Whatever we call it, thank God that our community 
is becoming aware of this menace and is uniting to 
wipe it out. And special thanks to those heavenly 
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence for their efforts to raise 
the money necessary for this fight, at the recent 
Castro Street Dog Show! 

Imre Szabo 
Fremont, CA 

P.S. In case you are interested, “Szasz” is pro¬ 
nounced “Sas,” and not “zazz.” But I imagine he is 
big enough to take care of himself. 


A DADDY’S ELATION 

★ I want to thank you for taking what feels like a 
giant step forward. I’m referring to the humor article 
in your June 17 issue. 

It’s no secret that there are many Gay fathers in the 
Bay Area, yet seldom does there appear a direct re¬ 
sponse to this segment of the population. All too 
often Gay parents feel estranged from much of the 
Gay community, as we can’t live with the same level 
of spontaneity enjoyed by so much of the Gay com¬ 
munity. I often feel that there is also a residual suspi¬ 
cion that colors the perspective of nonparenting Gays 
towards those of us who have chosen to parent. May¬ 
be it’s nothing more heinous than lack of understand¬ 
ing or awareness. If that is the case, your decision to 
use the article by Mr. Boots takes a much needed step 
toward a better understanding. 

My lover has a 13 year old daughter whom I dearly 
love, and my relationship with her is a cherished part 
of the emotional landscape of my life. She adds a di¬ 
mension of love that I would otherwise not enjoy. 

Your paper does a laudable job of serving our com¬ 
munity. I appreciate your efforts to represent and re¬ 
spond to the needs of an ever-widening concept of 
just who are the people that comprise the Gay/Les¬ 
bian community of the San Francisco Bay area. 

Thank you! 

Terry Boots is to be congratulated for so accurately 
and humorously depicting the life of a Gay step¬ 
parent. I hope to see more of his work in the future, 
parent oriented or not, as he appears to be a most 
gifted humorist. 

For the benefit of any other Gay fathers/step¬ 
fathers, if you are interested in contacting the Gay 
Fathers group in San Francisco, please come to our 
next meeting at 1350 Waller, July 11, 6 pm, or call 
Christopher Anderson at 928-7136 for more infor¬ 
mation. 

Once again, 


thank you, Mr. Lorch and company! 


Christopher Anderson 
San Francisco 


GAY YOUTH FRUSTRATIONS 

★ Do you remember how you managed to survive 
and strive for acceptance during your adolescent 
years? Although you have already experienced those 
years, and in the majority of the cases played little in¬ 


fluence in maintaining control with your own lifestyle 
as you do today. 

So many of us are forced to conform to rules and 
traditional attitudes of which certain classes of people 
' never obtain their Individuality until . 

When was the last time you were aware of con¬ 
versing with a young person? Do you ever remember 
asking him/her “How were they?” and the instant 
response is “Okay,” “Fine,” or something else more 
meaningless. Saying the individual is able to express 
his/her superficial thoughts. But if you were able to 
communicate and understand, you’ll probably find 
loneliness mixed in with numerous other issues. 

One example of this fact is there are over 200 Gay 
establishments that daily exclude members of our 
community unable to produce any referral since in 
San Francisco there are NO legitimate hangouts or 
Social Spots where young members of our commu¬ 
nity can be accepted. 

So how many people are we talking about? Well, 
about 20% of the Gay/Lesbian population, or two 
out of every ten members of our community. What is 
being done? Out of the thousands of adult-run organ¬ 
izations throughout the State of California less than a 
hundred organizations will admit they serve the needs 
of Sexual Minority Youth. Most local Gay businesses 
refuse to admit the existence of Youth or even young 
patrons. Which means all profits from sales to youth 
are pure profit, since most owners neglect to support 
youth organizations/liberation. 

So how can one overcome one’s unconscious age¬ 
ism and raise one’s consciousness? One example, our 
vocabulary: the phrase “Lesbians and Gay men,” 
which fails to note the large Gay male population of 
Youth. 

What people fail to acknowledge is that the whole 
point of any kind of liberation movement is for its par¬ 
ticipants to gain the freedom to do “whatever they 
want.” Youth Liberation is no different in this respect 
from Women’s Liberation, Gay Liberation, Third 
World Liberation, or any Liberation movement. To 
dismiss youth as' unworthy of this freedom because 
‘they’re just kids” is, of course, in itself the epitome 
(or should one say the nadir) of ageist acts. 

James Miller 
San Francisco 


DOGGY THANKS 

• ★ Joe’s Shows, Inc. and Headlines would like to 
thank Supervisor Harry Britt, Ron Huberman, Bill 
Kraus, Cleve Jones, Jim Baker, and the many mer¬ 
chants on Castro for their work and support in the 
Second Annual Dog Show and Parade. These indi¬ 
viduals were particularly influential in the granting of 
the permit necessary to close Castro Street between 
18th and 19th on Sunday, June 13, 1982, where the 
show was staged. This year’s event was a benefit for 
the Kaposi’s Sarcoma Cancer Clinic at the U.S. Medi¬ 
cal Center. 

We urge the Gay community to support the efforts 
of these individuals and their organizations, and to 
join us in wishing them continued success. 

Jay Johnson/ Joe Schmall 
Joe’s Shows, Inc. 

San Francisco 


POOR PREDICTION 

★ I disagree with Wayne Friday’s prediction that 
Republicans will win the senatorial and gubernatorial 
races in the fall. Wilson and Deukmejian have tied 
their political coattails to Ronald Reagan. The election 
of these two Republicans would be an endorsement 
of the failures of the national party. I don’t think Cali¬ 
fornians, and Gay voters in particular, approve of the 
nincompoop Democratic apathy put in office only two 
dismal years ago. x 

Tom Youngblood 
San Francisco 


A PRO SPEAKS 

★ I was outraged to learn that the San Francisco Vice 
Squad has gone a step further in its futile effort to 
drive sex out of the city. According to an article in the 
Examiner, the vice squad has officers posing as 
“johns” in order to lure prostitutes to select hotel 
rooms. The rooms have hidden cameras. The fake 
“john” flashes a load of*money and leaves the room. 
The money is left in the room with the prostitute. If 
the prostitute decides to leave with the money, (s)he 
is charged with stealing as well as prostitution. 

It’s a shame that the police have nothing better to 
do than to invent crimes and to entrap people who 
might otherwise never think of stealing. Not all prosti¬ 
tutes are thieves — in fact, mahy of us have clients 
who see us again and again. 

The police not only enforce unjust laws, but do so 
in a racist, sexist manner. The vice squad — along 
with the DA — should be on trial for their crimes 
against freedom and dignity — as well as wasting 
public funds. 

Robert D’Avonzo 
New York, NY 


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BAY AREA REPORTER JULY I, 1982 PAGE 8 


LETTERS 


CLEAN UP OUR ACTS 

★ Ron Kraus’ guest column, “The Newest Stakes” 
(June 17, 1982), urges gay men to “slow down, 
watch the scenery, inspect the tracks.” 

This supports the message I have been putting out 
as a patient with Kaposi’s sarcoma, as a nurse, and as 
a health reporter. I, too, believe that gay men need to 
slow down generally in our sex-and-drug lifestyles. 

One of my doctors, a well-meaning straight 
woman, asked me why so many gay men are “so 
promiscuous.” I told her that, based on my own ex¬ 
perience, we.grow up in an environment which pun¬ 
ishes our gay sexuality as well as sexuality in general. 
San-Francisco-in-the-80’s provides a place where 
we can get quick gratification for our urges. 

Unfortunately, those same things that make us feel 
good now can, in the long run, be hatmful to us. 
Even marijuana, widely regarded in the community 
as an essential vitamin, weakens your immunity to 
illness. 

Kraus, I think, is right. In a “community of free¬ 
doms,” we each must set limits on ourselves. 

Bobbi Campbell, RN 
San Francisco 


KS PUZZLES 

★ I refuse to remain silent any longer. We now have 
gay cancer, and people all over the country are saying 
that gays brought this awful disease upon ourselves by 
our sinful lifestyles and drugs we consume as a 
culture. Well, I think there are some unanswered 
questions that need to be answered before I believe 
that theory. 

First question, what caused the so-called Legion¬ 
naires Disease in Philadelphia a few years ago? At 
that time, doctors said that something was breaking 
down the defense system in the body, causing a con¬ 
dition similar to that which now exists with gay cancer 
patients. When the Legionnaires Disease controversy 
was occurring, there was a story in some of the major 
newspapers on the East Coast about a “fat man with 
thick wire rim glasses” who was at the Legionnaires’ 
convention telling people that they were going to die 
from some chemical that was being put into the air 
conditioning system of the convention hotel. At the 
time, people thought he was crazy, but when some of 
the victims started to drop dead, his story began to* 
make sense. 

Then I started to think about all the stories I’ve read 
recently about the secrecy surrounding the bacteria 
warfare weapons the U.S. government has devel¬ 
oped, and how in the 1950’s the city of San Francisco 
was used as a guinea pig to test chemical warfare 
weapons being developed by the C.I.A. 

Then just recently, Fidel Castro spoke out against 
the U.S. government for using deadly viruses and 
bacteria weapons to kill his people, livestock, and 
crops. 

And then noticing on certain of our bathhouses no 
open windows and the air conditioning systems stick¬ 
ing out for easy access, certain things began to con¬ 
nect. If the C.I.A. had developed a virus that could 
break down the immunity system of the body, what 
unwanted or undesired group of people would they 
test it on? Why have 85% of all cases of gay cancer 
occurred since January 1st of this year? 

Call me crazy, but first answer my questions! 

Name Withheld on Request 
San Francisco 


S&M DISTINCTIONS 

★ The recent “Open Forum” exchange of letters 
between Rick Leathers and The Red Queen prompts 
my writing this letter. I know neither Rick nor Red, so 
I hope this does not read as either an attempt to de¬ 
fend the former or to villify the latter. I am writing 
from my own understanding of the word “violence” 
and my own experience within the S&M community. 

The Queen’s letter asks, “What kind of man gets 
turned on by fantasies of violence against other 
men?” The answer, irrefutably, is a very disturbed, 
sick man. However, unless everything I learned dur¬ 
ing an 8-year study of our language and others is 
wrong, the word “violence” has absolutely nothing to 
do with S&M fantasies or activities. The word “vio¬ 
lence” shares its roots with the word “violation” — an 
invasion; an intrusion; an unwilling subjection of one 
person to something unwanted and harmful by an¬ 
other person who doesn’t care; an act of taking 
against the victim’s will. (For a more erudite elabora¬ 
tion, read Susan Brownmiller’s Against Our Will: 
Men, Women and Rape.) Assault is an act of vio¬ 
lence. Any act in which one person is harmfully, un¬ 
willingly subjected to the will and action of another 
person whose intent is malicious taking, is an act of 
violence. 

Without getting into yet another long defense of the 
right of two “consenting adults” to engage in what¬ 
ever activity they find mutually pleasurable, it should 
still be made clear — to the Red Queen and to every 
other person who seems to miss the point — that 
S&M activity is chosen by its participants. That ele¬ 
ment of choice, the element of willing participation, 
precludes by definition the application of the term 
“violence” to S&M activity. If I walk up to you on the 
corner of 18th and Castro and slam a leather-clad fist 


into your gut, that is an act of violence; however, if 
.you and I have agreed to go back to my playroom for 
some hot rough-house sex and I slam a leather-clad 
fist into your gut, the word “violence” is not applica¬ 
ble. In the former instance, you were victimized; in 
the latter, you asked for it! 

Much deeper than a dance of semantics, I think this 
exchange of letters between Messrs. Leathers and 
Queen points to the much more important issue of 
acceptance, i.e. our willingness to accept one 
another’s differences. In the same way that the 
straight world has misunderstood homosexuals and 
labeled us as perverts, deviates, and parasites, so too 
the legions of gays who are not into S&M and who 
misunderstand those of us who are have labeled us as 
fascists, embarrassments, and “violent.” To my mind, 
letters and opinions like those of the Red Queen indi¬ 
cate a total, blind misunderstanding of those men 
whose fantasies and activities he does not share. Dare 
1 suggest that his blanket condemnation of the S&M 
community, a condemnation that violates our right to 
choose, is in fact an act of violence far more real than 
anything I have ever seen depicted in any photograph 
by Jim Wigler. 

Hank Trout 
San Francisco 


CASTRO ISN’T THE WHOLE 

★ One of the more annoying things about San Fran¬ 
cisco is the tendency to regard Castro Street and the 
Gay community as if they were the same thing. 

As a Tenderloin resident I really resent the Gay 
“image” being exclusively that of the Castro Street 
middle-class, forgetting that district 5 is one out of 11 
districts in San Francisco. The picture presented of 
comparatively prosperous, comfortable people eerily 
recalls the Moral Majority’s claim that Gay rights is not 
a civil rights issue because Gays, contrasted to ethnic- 
minorities. are not an oppressed group, but merely 
seeking public approval of a questionable “lifestyle.” 
For Gays to project from Castro Street the same 
image, that of people without serious oppression or 
any real need for legal protections, has serious con¬ 
sequences. and if resentment is felt toward Castro 
Street, I admit to feeling a considerable amount of it 
myself. I’m not convinced that the ill feelings toward 
clones is solely a matter of unreasonable “homo¬ 
sexism." 

But summer is icumen in (sing cuccu) and the voice 
of the tourist shall be heard in the land. Visiting differ¬ 
ent locales with its resultant exchange of ideas has al¬ 
ways offered the hope of peace and progress. 

Michael Kooper 
San Francisco 

ED. NOTE: Interestingly enough no one picks on the 
Tenderloin and its Gays. Your points are well taken. Is it be¬ 
cause no one cares? Is it because of a general distaste or 
sense of superiority ? We have no answers but have never for¬ 
gotten it was where much of everything all started — 
decades before the Stonewall generation. 

P. Lorch 


FLICK FLACK 

★ I think it’s time for somebody to get a good slap in 
the face. I refer to the Laurel & Hardy of movie critics. 
Roger Ebert and Gene Siskell of “Sneak Previews. 
Although both deserve an occasional weekend in an 
iron maiden, it is Mr. Siskell (Laurel) who more fre 
quently gets my goat. 

I refer in particular to a recent program in which Mr 
Siskell felt that the new Steven Spielberg offering. 
Poltergeist, qualified for one of his “dogs of the 
week" . . . that the film had no love, no character de¬ 
velopment, and was a cheap trick exploiting special 
effects. 

Let me say here that Poltergeist is a thrilling movie 
experience. The special effects are superb, the scares 
are beautifully balanced with comedy, and the acting 
is wonderful. Here is a real family whose members we 
come to know and love and care about. I've seen the 
movie three times because I’m in love with this family, 
especially the mother (Jobeth Williams) and daughter 
(Heather O’Rourke). Spielberg unfolds this suburban 
ghost story masterfully with dynamite pacing and just- 
right touches of human-ness. (Guess I sound like a 
critic myself, don’t I?) Zelda Rubenstein is mesmer¬ 
izing as the medium called in to “clean the house." 
("You guys mind hangin’ back, you’re jammin’ my 
frequencies.’’) And the musical score by Jerry Gold¬ 
smith is gorgeous. (Incidentally, the movie is playing 
at the Northpoint Theater with the widest screen in 
the land and Dolby Stereo to die for.) 

If I’m going to pay five bucks for a movie 1 want my 
money's worth Poltergeist made me laugh, fall in 
love, and wet my pants. I’m tired of Mr. Siskell’s 
pompous pooh-poohing and lofty declarations from 
his video throne. But then again, anyone whose 
favorite movies of 1981 were about a meal conversa¬ 
tion (My Dinner with Andre) and a pet cemetery 
(Gates of Heaven) probably doesn’t know what a 
good movie is anyway. Siskell, you’re a jaded, bitter 
pill. So there. 

Run to see Poltergeist! And if you don’t enjoy it. 
I’m sure Gene Siskell would love a pen-pal. 






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Federal Judge’s Ruling 
Prompts More Support 

by Paul Lorch 

U.S. District Court Judge Robert Aguilar followed his April ruling on INS’s exclusion of Gays with 
a lengthy written opinion last week. And the 37-page document prompted supportive responses 
from local politicians. 


Leonard Graff, legal direc¬ 
tor for Gay Rights Advocates 
(GRA), the public interest law 
firm that represented Carl 
Hill, summed up the re¬ 
sponse: “The judge gave us 
everything we asked for. It 
was a total victory.” 

INS had argued via its gov¬ 
ernment attorneys that the 
courts had no authority to 
decide a question of whether 
INS could exclude homo¬ 
sexuals from the United 
States in absence of a medical 
certificate from the Public 
Health Service. 

GRA argued that the only 
basis for exclusion was a Pub¬ 
lic Health certificate. And 
since Public Health no longer 
conducts medical examina¬ 
tions for the purposes of certi¬ 
fying a homosexual as ex¬ 
cludable from entry, INS can¬ 
not proceed with novel rules. 



Dennis McQuaid (Photo: Rink) 

Judge Aguilar wrote that 
the courts indeed have juris¬ 
diction to hear the case and 
that the INS had abused its 
discretion in excluding Carl 
Hill. 

Following on the heels of 
the April ruling, San Francis¬ 
co politicians issued a flurry of 
supportive statements. This 
week two issued new state¬ 
ments, Philip Burton and 
Milton Marks; two reiterated 
earlier statements, Louise 
Renne and Dennis McQuaid; 
and two new ones joined the 
group, Carol Ruth Silver and 
Barbara Boxer. 

The day following the June 
18 opinion Congressman 
Philip Burton commented, 


“Judge Aguilar’s courageous 
ruling will, I hope, be the be¬ 
ginning of the end of the out¬ 
rageous policy of banning 
Gay people from entering this 
country.” 

State Senator Milton Marks 
also issued his second enthu¬ 
siastic endorsement (his first 
followed the April ruling and 
now he spoke on the June 
opinion). He told the Bay 
Area Reporter, “Judge Agui¬ 
lar is to be praised for his deci¬ 
sion to personally order the 
INS to end the exclusion of 
aliens because of sexual pref¬ 
erence.” “The Lesbian/Gay 
Freedom Day Committee and 
Gay Rights Advocates,” the 
liberal Marks added, “are to 
be commended for their tire¬ 
less efforts in bringing about 
Judge Aguilar’s ruling.” 

Both men made reference 
to constitutional rights. 
Burton said, “Clearly this de¬ 
cision speaks not only to the 
rights guaranteed to all per¬ 
sons under the Constitution, 
but also to the strong desire of 
the decent people of this 
country that this kind of per¬ 
secution must stop.” 

Marks concluded, “The 
constitutional rights of free 
speech and freedom of asso¬ 
ciation are essential to the 
concept of ordered liberty.” 

Moderate SF Supervisor 
Louise Renne, who voted in 
August 1979 for a resolution 
urging the INS to cease de¬ 
taining aliens on the basis of 
sexual preference, reiterated 
her support of two months 
ago when she said, “The rul¬ 
ing is of crucial importance in 
removing one of the most 
unjust barriers to freedom of 
association and freedom of 
choice.” 

Marin congressional candi¬ 
date Dennis McQuaid issued 
his congratulations when he 
noted the court proceedings 
were “only the first step in the 
complete repeal of he Immi¬ 
gration and Naturalization Act 
which prohibits Gay men and 
Lesbians from entering the 
United States.” He called the 
Act as it stands a “smoke 
screen for discrimination.” 

Two new voices added 
their weight this week, Carol 
Ruth Silver and Marin Super¬ 
visor Barbara Boxer. 

Silver said, “This is clearly a 



Barbara Boxer (Photo: Rink) 

victory for all of us concerned 
with fair treatment of all peo¬ 
ple by the government.” She 
said she was pleased to see 
the INS “brought into the 
twentieth century.” 

Boxer said the decision was 
“a victory for men and wo¬ 
men everywhere who believe 
in human rights and dignity 
for all.” She congratulated 
Judge Aguilar and his opinion 
saying it was a clear example 
“of what America is supposed 
to be about.” 

Jean O’Leary, executive 
director of GRA, talked about 
the status of the lawsuits. 
There were two cases — the 
first stemming from Carl Hill’s 
detention at San Francisco 
Airport in June 1979; this 
case was handled by GRA’s 
attorneys and in particular 
Don Knudsen. The second 
case stemmed from a 1981 
plea for an injunction filed by 
the Lesbian/Gay Freedom 
Day Committee. This assault 
was spearheaded by Lesbian 
attorney Mary Dunlap. 

Judge Aguilar’s opinion of 
two weeks ago covered both 
cases, and observers saw it as 
a double victory. According 
to O’Leary the Justice De¬ 
partment attorneys have de¬ 
cided to appeal the GRA case 
and not the case of the Free¬ 
dom Day Committee. 

At this point attorney Dun¬ 
lap will carry both cases for¬ 
ward as she has been desig¬ 
nated Hill’s attorney of rec¬ 
ord. She will be armed by 
both her own pleadings 
and the research and briefs of 
the Gay Rights Advocates. 

Hill last week returned to 
his home in London. ■ 


Hung Porn Star Wins 
Mass Murder Acquittal 


Los Angeles, CA 

John Holmes, whose 10" 
penis brought him fame and 
fortune, has been acquitted 
here of bludgeoning two men 
and two women to death last 
summer. The jury deliberated 
four days before deciding that 
an alleged “confession” out¬ 
side of the courtroom by 
Holmes was not corroborated 
by other evidence. 

Earlier in his career Holmes 
made full-length Gay porn 
films in Las Vegas and Los 
Angeles and shorter mastur¬ 
bation films for a Gay movie 
producer. In recent years he 
has made hundreds of straight 
porn films with endless wo¬ 
men. His enormous penis 


brought him a large income, 
but in recent years he alleged¬ 
ly became involved with both 
hard drugs and a Hollywood 
robbery ring. 

Holmes said he was order¬ 
ed at gunpoint to point out 
four people who allegedly 
had drug/robbery dealings 
with his associates. He claim¬ 
ed that other people brutally 
beat and strangled the four 
victims while he watched. 
Holmes, the prosecutor 
claimed, was at least involved 
in directly killing one of the 
victims himself. The porn star 
said he would not name the 
real murderers because he 
fears his wife would be mur¬ 


dered if he became an inform¬ 
er. He did not testify during 
the trial. 

The murders took place in 
a home in Hollywood’s Lau¬ 
rel Canyon. Numerous fin¬ 
gerprints identified as 
Holmes’ were discovered, but 
since he had frequented the 
residence in the past this was 
not considered incriminating 
by thejpry. 

Holmes was obviously elat¬ 
ed by the verdict and smiled 
for the photographers after 
the decision was read. How¬ 
ever, it will be some time be¬ 
fore he will be displaying his 
10" before the movie cam¬ 
eras. Holmes is now detained 
on additional charges — 
grand theft and possession of 
stolen property. He has a July 
8 trial date. Holmes is at¬ 
tempting to raise $50,000 
bail. . GM 


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activities of local Gay political 
organizations in matters per¬ 
taining to the national Demo¬ 
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seek to articulate the concerns 
of Gay Democrats in dealing 
with the national Democratic 
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In taking this step, the Na¬ 
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openly Gay delegates, alter¬ 
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ing the language of the 1980 
Platform shall be the first of 


At its Mid-Term Confer¬ 
ence in Philadelphia last 
weekend, the Democratic 
Party committed itself to an 
expansion of the 1964 Civil 
Rights Act in order to “pro¬ 
hibit discrimination in employ¬ 
ment on the basis of sexual 
orientation.” This historic step 
was approved by an over¬ 
whelming vote of the Demo¬ 
cratic Issues Workshop on 
Citizens Rights and Personal 
Safety. An additional amend¬ 
ment expanding the Equal 
Rights subsection to include 
Gay rights was also added to 
the Party’s reaffirmation of its 
1980 platform. 

In his first Party appearance 
as a spokesperson for the 
Lesbian and Gay rights move¬ 
ment, Dan Bradley, former 
president of the Legal Serv¬ 
ices Corporation, addressed 
conference participants as a 
member of the Citizens Rights 
workshop panel. Bradley told 
his audience that “we ask and 
demand nothing more and 
nothing less than fairness, jus¬ 
tice and equality for all Ameri¬ 
cans, including millions and 
millions of Gay men and Les¬ 
bians.” In his remarks he stat¬ 
ed that “there is no state 
where we cannot be taken 
seriously as a political force” 
and reminded the Democrats 
that “while millions of Lesbi¬ 
ans and Gay men still remain 
in the closet, they can and 
they will speak out in the vot¬ 
ing booth.” 

Earlier, Bradley participat¬ 
ed with 65 Lesbian and Gay 
Democratic leaders from 13 
states and more than 25 cities 
in creating the National Asso¬ 
ciation of Gay and Lesbian 
Democratic Clubs at an all¬ 
day conference on June 24 in 
Philadelphia. The founders 
included 15 delegates and re¬ 
placement delegates to the 
Mid-Term Conference, two 
members of the Democratic 
National Committee and rep¬ 
resentatives of 25 major Gay 
political organizations across 
the country. 

Democratic National Com¬ 
mittee Chair Charles Manatt 
and California Senator Alan 
Cranston both addressed the 
members of the new group 
during the founding 
conference. 

At that meeting, Gwenn 
Craig, two-term president of 
the Harvey Milk Gay Demo¬ 
cratic Club of San Francisco, 


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July 27, 28, 29 


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Tuesday, July 13 
Wednesday, July 14 
Thursday, July 15 


Weslia Whitfield 
Tuesday, July 20 
Wednesday, July 21 
Thursday, July 22 


Demos Go for Gay Rights 
at Mini Convention 

Gay Democrats Elect Gwenn Craig Co-Chair 
of New National Organization 


Charles Manatt, Democratic National Committee Chair, is introduced to 
Lesbian and Gay Democratic Partij conferees by Bill Olwell, Washington, 
D.C., labor leader and openly Gay delegate. (Photo: Harry Eberlin) 


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welcomes Senator Alan Cranston to the founding conference (Photo: Harry 
Eberlin) 


GGBA Awards Grants 


The GGBA Foundation 
Board of Directors met re¬ 
cently to review second quar¬ 
ter grant applications and 
made the following awards: 
the Kaposi’s Sarcoma Clinic 
of the University of California, 
San Francisco, to partially 
fund a clerical person to assist 
its Nurse Coordinator in han¬ 
dling KS cases ($500); Bay 
Area Physicians for Human 
Rights (BAPHR) to assist in 
the funding of a public educa¬ 
tion brochure on Kaposi Sar¬ 


coma ($200); and to The Re¬ 
source Foundation Hepatitis • 
Project to partially fund pro¬ 
duction of its information bro¬ 
chure, “Facts on Hepatitis B” 
($ 100 ). 

Major funds are provided to 
The GGBA Foundation by 
the Golden Gate Business As¬ 
sociation annual charity fund¬ 
raiser “Twenty-Two on the 
Red.” 

The GGBA Foundation 
awards grants each quarter. 


Gwenn Craig, delegate to mini 
Demo convention ends up as co¬ 
chair of National Ass'n of Gay and 
Lesbian Demo Clubs. (Photo. Rink) 


many that will result from our 
organizing as a political force 
on a national level. This will 
be especially helpful,” she 
continued, “to the Gay Rights 
National Lobby as they visit 
with Democratic representa-. 
tives in Congress to discuss 
federal Gay rights legislation.” 

Also from San Francisco in 
attendance were Jack Trujillo 
and Larry Eppinette. 


and Peter Vogel, former four- 
term president of the Lambda 
Independent Democrats of 
Brooklyn, were elected as 
Co-Chairs of the National 
Association. 


In addition to Cranston, the 
National Association received 
pledges of support from presi¬ 
dential hopefuls Senator Ed¬ 
ward Kennedy and former 
Vice President Walter Mon¬ 
dale. 


Gay and Lesbian Demo¬ 
crats from throughout the 
United States have already 
pledged an initial $10,600 to 
the new National Association. 
The executive committee ap¬ 
pointed Tom Chorlton, presi¬ 
dent of the Gertrude Stein 
Democratic Club of Washing¬ 
ton, D C., and organizer of 
the founding conference, to 
serve as interim executive di¬ 
rector. 


The National Association 


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Weedstock 
Denied Permit 

by Konstantin Berlandt 

At press time, Weedstock 
lawyer Dan Fagan was in¬ 
tending to go to court for an 
injunction against the city’s 
Park and Recreation Depart¬ 
ment’s revocation of a permit 
for the planned 3-day event 
in Civic Center this holiday 
weekend, according to Weed- 
stock spokesperson P. Peb¬ 
bles. 

The Department’s staff re¬ 
voked the permit Friday, ac¬ 
cording to Park Director 
Leonard Fitzpatrick “because 
the group, California Mari¬ 
juana Initiative, had issued 
handbills indicating they were 
going to urge people to break 
the law.’’ 

Denial of a permit was up¬ 
held Monday in a 5-0 vote of 
Park & Rec’ Commissioners 
present (Amy Meyer, Keith 
Eichman, Tommy Harris, 
Frances McAteer, and Jeffrey 
Mori) . 

Deputy Police Chief James 
Ryan told B.A.R. Tuesday 
any organizers who tried to 
hold a rally without permit 
“would be cited for violating 
park code.” However, Ryan 
added, if it weren’t an organ¬ 
ized rally but “just a gathering 
of people . . . people have the 
right to use the park as indi¬ 
viduals.” He said the police 
“would play that one by ear.” 

Speaking for Weedstock, 
Pebbles told the B.A.R. Tues¬ 
day afternoon that marijuana 
smokers were “coming out, 
just like in the Gay move¬ 
ment.” Outraged the group’s 
permit had been pulled only 
the week before the event, 
she urged people to come 
and not worry about being 
busted, noting Ryan’s threat 
was to the organizers and not 
the participants. 

She did warn, though, if 
people wish to take off their 
clothes or smoke the illicit 
weed, “they should do so in 
the center of the crowd,” 
where she doubted police 
would make any arrests. She 
also said television crews 
would be there to tape any ar¬ 
rest. “Arrests should be tele¬ 
vised,” she said. “People are 
too complacent.” 

The purple leaflet, the Park 
Commission cited to show il¬ 
legal activities had been plan¬ 
ned, reads in part: “While the 
Weedstock organizers them¬ 
selves deny any part of any il¬ 
legal conspiracy, they openly 
acknowledge that the event 
will be a l smoke-in’ and that 
they expect the crowd to be 
the ‘highest’ ever.” 

The leaflet continues: “ 
‘Supporters have been bring¬ 
ing lots of pot to marijuana re¬ 
form rallies in this city for a 
long time, and it’s never 
caused any trouble,’ they say. 
‘In fact, it prevents problems, 
by bringing people together, 
and by giving the crowd an al¬ 
ternative to booze.’” 

A later paragraph puts it 
more blatantly: “Weedstock 
will be the first S.F. smoke-in 
to last more than one day, 
and is also the first to be so 
openly admitted to be an act 
of mass defiance of the pot 
laws. Organizers have been 
impressed by the gains made 
by the Gay community since 
‘coming out,’ and also by the 
success of the Abalone Alli¬ 
ance in shutting down the 
Diablo Canyon nuclear power 
plant (and opening up the 
mass media) by their openly 
announced civil disobedi¬ 
ence.' 

An interview with Pebbles, 
Dennis Peron, and Boom 
Boom is on page 18. 



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by Allen White 

With over 200 participating 
units, the 1982 San Francisco 
Gay Freedom Day Parade 
moved for three hours to¬ 
wards the giant rainbow flags 
and the Celebration in Civic 
Center. One of the most di¬ 
versified and largest Gay pa¬ 
rades ever presented, it was a 
dramatic example of the 
theme, “Out of Many . . , 
One.” 

Over 300 monitors were 
positioned along the parade 
route and in Civic Center. 
Working with the monitors 
were about 70 police. Police 
Commissioner Jo Daly told 
the Bay Area Reporter that 
the cooperation was sensa¬ 
tional. Equally as sensational 
was the announcement that 
with over 200,000 people at¬ 
tending the. day’s activities 
there was not one single ar¬ 
rest. The police were the sub¬ 
ject of praise several times 
from the stage. At the street 
level, many in the crowd were 
thanking the police for their 
cooperation and the police 
were returning the compli¬ 
ments. 

As the parade marchers ar¬ 
rived in Civic Center they saw 
the mammoth pink stage ac¬ 
cented by a similarly colored 
banner which stretched the 
full length of the Mayor’s bal¬ 
cony, covering the center 
area of City Hall. 

The parade began with 
Dykes on Bikes. This year 
over one hundred bikes were 
assembled and the group was 
over a full city block in length. 
They were followed by the 
largest of the rainbow flags, 
which was carried horizontally 
up Market Street. They were 
followed by the San Francisco 
Gay Freedom Day Marching 
Band and Twirling Corps. 

Over 50 floats were en¬ 
tered in this year’s event. One 
float represented the state of 
Alaska, and the Grand Prize 
went to- the Hayward Gay 
Sheriff’s Float. The women’s 
float carried the theme “Break 
The Chains That Bind Us.” 

Marching groups of every 
size and description took part. 
The winner of the Grand 
Prize in the marching contin¬ 
gent category was Sistah 
Boom, a dynamic women’s 
samba troupe. 

The crowd was in a festive 
mood as they cheered virtu¬ 
ally all the groups. They stood 
up and danced to the music 
of the floats. The Gay Fathers 
were as effective at showing 
their pride as parents as the 
Sisters of Perpetual Indul¬ 
gence were at their outrage¬ 
ous anti-VD presentation. 
The only group which was 
booed and greeted with dis¬ 
taste was the Gays for Guns 
group. The boos from the 
crowd were so loud that 
monitors were able to ascer¬ 
tain their presence through 
the parade just by the volume 
of the negative crowd reac¬ 
tion. 

Over 100 booths filled City 
Center. The beer sales were 
high. The initial order of 
24,000 cans were sold out, 
and several more thousand 
were brought in and they too 
sold. An hour before the 
Celebration ended the beer 
concession was closed. 

(Continued on next page) 


Balloons, leather, cycles, and trucks on parade. (Photo. Robert Pruzan) 


Torsos and minarets. (Photo: Robert Pruzan) 


BAY AREA REPORTER JULY I, 1982 PAGE 12 


The view from the thousands in Civic Center. (Photo: Rink) 


Backstage at the celebration. Leonnie Guyer (I.) and Canyon Sam. one of 
the event's MC's. (Photo: Rink) 


The theme of the ’82 parade? (Photo: Rink) 






















were present to hear the San 
Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, 
the San Francisco Lesbian & 
Gay Men’s Community Cho¬ 
rus, and the various contin¬ 
gents in the San Francisco 
Gay Freedom Day Marching 
Band. San Francisco’s “food- 
sexual” entertainer, Carol 
Roberts was the Mistress of 
Ceremonies. The event con¬ 
cluded with all the groups 
participating as well as mem¬ 
bers of the Gay Olympics. 

Saturday night at the Civic 
Auditorium was the “Cele¬ 
brate, Celebrate” dance 
party. Like most of the events 
which were presented over 
the weekend, the event was 
stunning in quality but, like 
some others, failed to attract 
the anticipated crowds. 

“Out of Many . . . One” 
was the theme for the 1982 
San Francisco Gay/Lesbian 
Freedom Day. The weekend 
proved the motto. 

Glenne McElhinney, Pa¬ 
rade Co-Chair, also issued a 
statement: “The Lesbian/ 
Gay Freedom Day Commit¬ 
tee deeply regrets the death 
of Darryl Anderson during 
Sunday’s Parade. While in 13 
years of celebrating the 
Stonewall resistance over two 
million people have safely 
participated in marches down 
Market Street, we can only 
grieve this first fatality. As 
suggested by this year’s 
theme, “Out of Many . . . 
One,” this young man’s death 
diminishes us all: To his sur¬ 
viving family, lover, and 
; friends, we extend our heart- 
i’ felt condolences.” ■ 


Love in bloom . . . black leather narcissuses (Photo: Rink) 


(Continued from previous page) 

From the stage the Cele¬ 
bration planners gave the 
speakers a fast five minutes 
each for their message. As a 
result, in over six hours of 
stage presentation, only 45 
minutes was devoted to 
speeches, with over five 
hours for entertainment. 

The parade and celebration 
was followed by tea dances 
throughout the city. At Cali¬ 
fornia Hall, Jeannie Tracy 


brought along Wilson Pickett 
to entertain at the “Entry” 
party. Trocadero Transfer 
presented Angela Clemmons. 
Conceptual Entertainment’s 
Galleria party filled to capacity 
with entertainment by Sylves¬ 
ter. Studio West spread a free 
lunch and vibrated. 

Sunday was the culmina¬ 
tion of a fast-paced weekend 
of events. Friday night was 
the 4th Annual Gay Musical 
Celebration at the Civic Audi¬ 
torium. Almost 5,000 neoDle 


"Sistah Boom” contingent - a women's samba troupe took the grand prize for marching contingents. (Photo: Rink) 



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'.'Mister" and “Mistress" read the studded dog collars on a high tech duo. 
(Photo: Mick Hicks) 



Five thousand attend Gay Musical Celebration at Ciuic Auditorium Friday 
night. (Photo: Rink) 


City Officials Commend ’82 Parade 


by Konstantin Berlandt 

The Board of Supervisors 
Monday adopted sending a 
letter of commendation to 
1982 Parade Co-Chairs Rick 
Turner and Glenne McElhin- 
ney. 

Supervisor Harry Britt, 
who made the motion, de¬ 
scribed the Parade as “gener¬ 
ally considered to be the most 
successful and capably con¬ 
ducted event” in its history 
and credited Turner and 
McElhinney for clearing up 
problems of last year. 

He didn’t detail last year’s 
problems, but the Parade 
Committee filed complaints 
last summer against police 
running sirens and motor¬ 
cycles up and down the Pa¬ 
rade route, dangerously close 
to spectators, and at one 
point following the I-Beam’s 
float past 7th and Market, 
drove into the crowd filling 
the. intersection with a fleet of 
motorcycles. Police Internal 
Affairs Bureau responded 
nearly a year later with indi¬ 
vidual letters to complainants, 
most of which replied that 
there was little substance to 
the complaints. 

However, police-monitor- 
crowd relations were vastly 
improved this year, with no 
complaints reported. 

Mayor Dianne Feinstein, in 
a press conference last week 
at her office to publicly pre¬ 
sent her signed Proclamation 
of Lesbian/Gay Freedom 
Week that appears in the Pa¬ 
rade program, complimented 
this year’s organizers on co¬ 
operation with her office. 

Last year’s Parade Co- 
Chair Greg Day objected to 
the Mayor’s criticism of previ¬ 
ous years’ organizations not 
working as closely with her. 
He pointed out that the 1981 
organizers had worked direct¬ 
ly with the police, but that the 
failure in communications 
had necessitated working 
through the Mayor’s office 
this year. 

The Mayor said her office 
was where such things be¬ 
longed. She added she would 
attend next year’s Parade if 


the Committee were equally 
cooperative, but said she was 
scheduled to be at the Mayors 
Conference in Philadelphia 
last weekend. 

Supervisor Lee Dolson at 
Monday’s Supervisors’ meet¬ 
ing agreed with Britt’s com¬ 
mendation to the Parade Co- 
Chairs. “It is very, very well 
deserved,” Dolson said, not¬ 
ing “the degree of coopera¬ 
tion, understanding and com¬ 
mitment” that had made “an 
orderly as well as fun type af¬ 
fair more than ever before. It 
was very, very well done.” 
Supervisor Hongisto also 


praised the production. 

Britt also spoke of the acci¬ 
dental death of young Darryl 
Anderson under the wheels 
of the I- Beam float that put “a 
great pall over the event.” 
The Gay Supervisor de¬ 
scribed Anderson’s death as 
“a great loss to us all,” adding 
that “the many hundreds of 
thousands (at the Parade) will 
always remember the tragic 
loss of that life.” 

He asked for a symbolic 
adjournment in the late An¬ 
derson’s honor. (See story on 
accident elsewhere in this 
issue.) | 



Supervisor Hongisto and his wife Liz Colton. (Photo: Robert Pruzan) 


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BAY AREA REPORTER JULY I, 1982 PAGE 14 



































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B&W Nen Convene in D.C. 


The International Associ¬ 
ation of Black and White Men 
Together (IABWMT) held its 
second annual Convention, 
June 16-20 in Washington, 
D.C. District of Columbia 
Mayor, the Honorable Marion 
Barry, addressing the Con¬ 
vention, expressed his sup¬ 
port for the Gay interracial 
organization’s efforts to unite 
the political interests of the 
Gay and Third World com¬ 
munities, stressing the prog¬ 
ress achieved in Washington, 
D.C., through such joint 
community effort. 

Representing 22 chapters 
and 1400 members, the Inter¬ 
national Association adopted 
a resolution challenging the 
presence of racism in all its 
forms: institutional, social, 
economic, religious, political, 
sexual, corporate, and indi¬ 
vidual, and reaffirmed its 
commitment to working 
against such racism both in 
the Gay community and in 
the larger society. 

The Convention also chal¬ 


lenged other forms of oppres¬ 
sion, including sexism, het¬ 
erosexism, ageism, and dis¬ 
crimination against the physi¬ 
cally challenged, and reaf¬ 
firmed its commitment to ad¬ 
dressing these issues as inte¬ 
gral to its program. The Asso¬ 
ciation will devise specific 
strategies to identify and com¬ 
bat all these forms of oppres¬ 
sion, and will disseminate 
materials to implement, its 
program. 

In addition to Mayor Barry, 
Ron Wilson, a prominent 
Black Civil Rights attorney 
and Gay activist of New Or¬ 
leans, presented a keynote 
address detailing litigation 
strategies for combating racial 
discrimination within the Gay 
community. The Convention 
was also addressed by Hilda 
Mason, D.C. City Council- 
member; Steve Endean, 
Executive Director of the Gay 
Rights National Lobby; Adri¬ 
enne Rich, celebrated anti¬ 
racist Lesbian-feminist poet; 
Louie Crew, professor, essay¬ 
ist, and founder of Integrity, 


the Gay Episcopal organiza 
tion; A. Billy S. Jones, found 
er of the National Coalition of 
Black Gays; and Mel Boozer, 
Black spokesperson for the 
National Gay Task Force. 

IABWMT Co-Chairs Henry 
Wiemhoff and Charles Stew¬ 
art emphasized the intention 
of the Association to aggres¬ 
sively pursue its anti-racist 
and coalition-building agen¬ 
da. “The Association’s prior¬ 
ity will be to focus on issues of 
mutual concern to the Third 
World and Gay communi¬ 
ties,” said Stewart, the Black 
IA Co-Chair from the Los 
Angeles BWMT chapter. 
“This is a major breakthrough 
in our community,” stressed 
Wiemhoff, the White IA Co- 
Chair from the New York 
BWMT chapter, “as we are 
beginning to deal with the 
pervasive white-identification 
of a community which is in 
fact racially and ethnically 
very diverse, and which has 
incorporated the racism en¬ 
demic in our society.” 


Gays vs. Undercover Cops 

by David Treadwell 


San Jose, CA 

As San Jose undercover 
cops continue to make their 
arrests in downtown adult 
bookstores, more men are 
now taking these cases to 
trial. The second and third 
trials have ended, one with a 
guilty verdict and the other 
with a hung jury. 

The second trial lasted two 
days. The jury seemed bored 
and anxious to get it over 
with. They deliberated for less 
than one hour before they re¬ 
turned a guilty verdict. The 
defendant was on trial for 
masturbation and solicitation. 
The vice officer admitted en¬ 
tering a booth and observing 
the defendant masturbating. 
He then engaged the defen¬ 
dant in conversation. The jury 
did not accept the defendant’s 
claim that the undercover cop 
had violated his privacy or 
that the cop led him on. Sen¬ 
tencing is scheduled for June 
19 and could result in a jail 
sentence, fines of $600, and 
registration as a sex offender. 
An appeal to the State Su¬ 
preme Court has already 
been filed. 

The third trial a few days 
later resulted in a hung jury. 


In this case the defendant met 
a vice cop in a bookstore and 
they had conversation about 
having sex. The man was ar¬ 
rested when the officer claim¬ 
ed the defendant wanted to 
have sex in the cop’s car. The 
offense was simply the claim 
by the vice officer that the de¬ 
fendant wanted to do “it” in 
his car; a car is considered 
public. The defendant claim¬ 
ed he was willing to go to the 
car but there was no discus¬ 
sion of having sex in the car. 
The trial lasted for six days 
and the jury deliberated for 
six hours. 

The first trial, which took 
place over a month ago, also 
resulted in a hung jury. The 
DA’s office has announced 
that it intends to re-try this 
case. 

It has been estimated that 
the three trials have cost the 
taxpayers over $12,000. This 
figure does not include the 
public defender, police time, 
other court time, or booking 
time. The public defender’s 
office has at least 30 more 
cases scheduled for trial. No 
one knows how many private 
attorneys have scheduled for 
trial. The cost to the taxpayers 
will be considerable. ■ 


Vice Cop Meets Gays 

by David Treadwell 


San Jose, CA 

Lt. Tom Johnson met with 
members of the Committee 
for Fair Police Practices, San¬ 
ta Clara Valley Coalition for 
Human Rights, and NOW to 
discuss the arrests of men in 
adult bookstores. Lt. John¬ 
son, who was promoted the 
following day to Captain, pre¬ 
sented himself as someone 
who did not have all the an¬ 
swers, but was there to listen. 

It soon became obvious 
that Johnson did not have 
any answers. He claimed that 
the bookstore operation came 
under the direction of Lt. 
Sorihan. Sorihan was not 
able to attend the meeting, as 
he was out of town to attend a 
funeral. Johnson told the 
twenty people assembled he 


had no knowledge of the 
bookstore arrests. Most in the 
room became convinced that 
the meeting would not be 
productive when he also 
claimed that he did not know 
that most of the men arrested 
are Gay. 

District Attorney Bill Dancer 
also attended and was very 
candid about his feelings con¬ 
cerning the bookstore busts. 
He said he felt the police ac¬ 
tion and the prosecution of 
the men arrested was a waste 
of time and money. Dancer 
claimed that almost everyone 
in the DA’s office is disgusted 
with having to work on these 
cases, but that Supervisor 
Clay Halpred is obsessed with 
prosecuting these case. ■ 


Moral Majority: 
Short of Cash? 

“Our situation is serious. If 
our people don’t respond, we 
are in trouble,’’‘Ronald God¬ 
win, the Vice President of the 
Moral Majority, has an¬ 
nounced. He told the media, 
“We barely have enough 
money to print our next 
newsletter. We need $15 to 
$50 contributions before 
July 4.” 

The Moral Majority was 
founded by homophobic 
evangelist Jerry Falwell. It is 
Falwell who said that God 
may have punished San 
Franqisco for its tolerance of 
homosexuality by allowing for 
the deaths of Supervisor Har¬ 
vey Milk and Mayor George 
Moscone. Lately, Falwell has 
used his homophobia and 
Gay-baiting to appeal for 
funds, erroneously claiming 
that the national Gay rights 
movement is well financed. 

Whether Falwell is telling 
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TV viewers of his “Old Time 
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menting a successful HUD 
funded project which assisted 
low and moderate income 
families to purchase their 
rental units when the build¬ 
ings were converted to con¬ 
dominiums. He holds Mas¬ 
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When Friends/Lovers Part 

Who Gets the Color TV? 

by George Mendenhall 

Love is in the air. The birds are in the trees. It could never end. The perfect match. But when it 
ends, who gets the color TV? 

The friendship is deep. They share but also go their separate ways. A wonderful “understanding” 
relatipnship. But when it ends, who gets the house? 

“Gay liberation,” concludes 
attorney Matt Coles, “con¬ 
tinues to make more people 
aware of all the ramifications 
of same-sex relationships, in¬ 
cluding the economics in¬ 
volved. Twenty years ago few 
of us would have been willing 
to go into court and acknowl¬ 
edge that we are Gay in order 
to gain our legal rights. Today 
more and more people realize 
that being closeted can be 
intimidating.” 

Coles, who wrote the San 
Francisco and Berkeley Gay 
rights ordinances, believes 
that the bitterness and tragedy 
of “sorting out” all of the 
property can be avoided if 
lovers and close friends who 
share will follow some simple 
guidelines. 

SECOND-HAND RUGS 

Sofa, lamps, TVs, toasters, 
and rugs become second¬ 
hand and their cash value is 
reduced considerably if a rela¬ 
tionship is lengthy. Coles says 
that such minor items are 
usually divided up easily 
through a give-and-take pro¬ 
cess, usually based on who 
bought what. Sometimes one 
partner will simply leave it all 
for the other in a “so who 
needs this junk?” gesture. 

The attorney has never heard 
of the determination of own¬ 
ership involving household 
furniture which ended up in 
court. 

When partners are talking 
about stocks and bonds, a 
home, a condominium, an 
automobile, or an apartment 
house, the situation becomes 
more serious. If it is a relation¬ 
ship where both the partners 
worked interchangeably or all 
the time there is no problem 
— if the title has been deter¬ 
mined earlier. Unfortunately, 
the legal arrangements are 
not always clear or one part¬ 
ner is favored over the other 
because both cannot believe it 
will ever end. 

“People often do not want 
to determine ownership,” 

Coles explains, “because if 
you talk about buying things 
separately, you are bringing 
up the possibility that the rela¬ 
tionship might not always 
continue. We have a warped 
view in our society that rela¬ 
tionships will never end. But 
people do change and people 
do move away. With minor 
items it makes little difference, 
but when you are talking 
about real property and in¬ 
vestments. there can be prob¬ 
lems.” 

Coles urges people to think 
about a possible separation 
right at the start. He realizes 
this is difficult when the part¬ 
ners are young and may have 
a “live and let live” lifestyle. 

To not resolve such matters, 
however, can result in one 
partner shutting off the gar¬ 
bage collections, the other 
trying to charge the partner 
for rent for occupying “my” 
house, and locks being 
changed. All this can be 
avoided, Coles observes, if 
the couple realize they might 
not always be together. 

If both partners have in¬ 
comes and only one partner 
has the investments and real 
property in the one name, the 
split can be difficult. If the 
partner who doesn’t have title 


has a “paper trail” or testifying 
witnesses, there may be suc¬ 
cess in dividing the property. 
A “paper trail,” Coles ex¬ 
plains, is check stubs, re¬ 
ceipts, bills, letters, or any¬ 
thing that showed shared ex¬ 
penses. If there are witnesses 
who will testify that the rela¬ 
tionship was a shared one, 
there is also a plus. Without 
the paper trail or witnesses, 
the court could determine 
that the person with the writ¬ 
ten title is the sole owner. 

“Palimony” is another mat¬ 
ter altogether. In such court 
cases, none of which has yet 
to be successful in court, one 
single, unemployed person 
lays claim to the income or 
property of another because 
they have lived together “like 
husband and wife.” The un¬ 
employed person claims that 
a great sacrifice (lost career or 
income) was made and so the 
person should be compensat¬ 
ed ... In legal marriages 
50% of the acquired income 
and property becomes mutu¬ 
ally owned, but the courts 
have held “palimony” claims 
iffvalid. Unless it is in writing, 
there is no community prop¬ 
erty in “palimony” cases. 

SUGGESTED 

GUIDELINES 

Coles suggests that part¬ 
ners begin now to follow 
some simple guidelines: 

, 1. Do not pay your shared 
contributions in cash. Always 
pay by check, indicating on 
the- check what it is for. Save 
the returned checks. 

2. Have your name put on 
the title of anything major that 
you purchase or is share- 
purchased. If you haven’t 
signed the title, you don’t 
have a title. If you are paying 
50-50 on an item, both of 
you write out equal amount 
checks. 

3. If your partner talks in 
terms of things being “mine” 
instead of “ours,” correct 
him. Remember witnesses 
who will remember the refer¬ 
ences to shared items. Save 
receipts, letters, notes that re¬ 
fer to items being shared. 

If the establishing of clear 
title to shared property is not 
explicit and the partners have 
been living together for some 
time, one of the partners may 


want to initiate that the equal¬ 
ity of titles should be deter¬ 
mined. Coles says this can 
cause emotional problems be¬ 
tween partners, but if two 
partners are really caring, it 
should be simply resolved. If 
it cannot be resolved easily, 
he believes maybe the ques¬ 
tioning partner had good rea¬ 
son to bring it up. 

Coles says that the ultimate 
facing up to what the relation¬ 
ship really is could come in 
the decision to discuss how 
“shared” the property and in¬ 
vestments are. He says most 
people do not want to really 
sit down and discuss what the 
relationship is. If there is real 
depth, he believes, the eco¬ 
nomics can be worked out 
amicably. It is better to do it as 
early as possible, he con¬ 
cludes, rather than face a 
bloody mess in court later. 

Recently Coles and a com¬ 
mittee wrote a guideline for 
city legislation that will affect 
same-sex couples in their re¬ 
lationship. Although it is not 
directly related to this discus¬ 
sion of shared income and 
property, it does illustrate the 
types of matters that will in¬ 
creasingly make it easier for 
unmarried couples to relate to 
one another. 

The new legislation, now 
being drafted into completed 
form by the City Attorney, 
was introduced by Supervisor 
Harry Britt. It would permit 
the same city amenities for 
single people in relationships 
that are now enjoyed by mar¬ 
ried people. It would allow an 
unmarried couple to file an 
affidavit stating that they live 
together, are each other’s sole 
domestic partners, and share 
the same necessities of life. 
This would entitle the couple 
to such city benefits as jail visi¬ 
tations, sick leave, and city 
housing eligibility. 

Coles believes that Gay 
people are moving into a new 
era “in which two people who 
live together can decide what 
they want, understanding ful¬ 
ly what the consequences of 
being in a relationship will 
be.” He believes there will be 
an increasing re-evaluation of 
current law concerning rela¬ 
tionships which still favors the 
23% of the population that 
live in heterosexual “nuclear 
family” relationships. ■ 


















































FACE TO FACE 



Working with 
Quentin Kopp 

SUPERVISOR HARRY BRITT 


| uentin Kopp’s elevation 
^to the presidency of the 
Board of Supervisors prom¬ 
ises to make things a great 
deal more interesting around 
City Hall. 

He replaces Supervisor 
John Molinari, one of our 
community’s best friends in 
politics. On the surface, this 
change would appear to be a 
setback for Molinari. In real¬ 
ity, his star is very much on 
the rise because he has used 
his power to develop solid 
political relationships which 
will be there when he needs 
them. 

Supervisor Kopp’s term is 
only for six months, and the 
office is largely a ceremonial 
one. The press is, nonethe¬ 
less, making a big deal out of 
the change and they’re not 
entirely wrong. Quentin will 
be very much in the spotlight 
between now and January, 
using his visibility to put to¬ 
gether an image and a base 
for a probable run for the 
Mayor’s office next year. 

So far, he’s done every¬ 
thing right. Even before he’d 
assumed office, he took im¬ 
portant steps to indicate his 
willingness to work with his; 
colleagues on the Board. 
With few exceptions he gave 
us committee assignments 
that fit our political needs. In 
my case, for example, all 
three of my assignments 
came from the list of four I 
said were acceptable to me. 
His call for a pay raise for Su¬ 
pervisors was also an impor¬ 
tant gesture toward establish¬ 
ing himself as captain of the 
team. 

A ll of this represents a real 
change. In the three 
years I’ve been on the Board 
Quentin has seldom shown 
any interest in working with 
his fellow Supervisors. His 
style has been to work the 
press, but not to do the politi¬ 
cal work necessary to pass his 
legislation. Most of the mem¬ 
bers of the Board have been 
offended by his tactics and re¬ 
sent his nonparticipation in 
the collegial give-and-take 
that the rest of us have 
shared. It’s this self-definition 


as an outsider, not his con¬ 
servative politics, that is the 
reason he never would have 
been elected president by a 
vote of the Board. 

So who is this guy Quentin 
Kopp? What’s the reality be¬ 
hind the image of Quentin the 
Terrible that frightened thou¬ 
sands of liberal voters into 
supporting conservative 
Dianne Feinstein in 1979? 



Quentin Kopp — "So far he’s done 
everything right" -- Harry Britt 


The most important thing 
to know abput Quentin Kopp 
— as about any politician — is 
who his constituency is. In 
general, the people who sup¬ 
port Kopp are the people who 
have been least receptive to 
the developing Gay presence 
in the city. His vote largely 
represents an older San Fran¬ 
cisco, uncomfortable with 
change, troubled by the new 
power of racial minorities and 
Gays. He has probably the 
most vocal constituency of 
any politician in the city, but 
it’s a constituency very much 
on the defensive. 


It’s easy to write these peo¬ 
ple off as enemies — too 
easy. Like many Americans 
(maybe your parents?) they 
are having trouble dealing 
with change and can be ma¬ 


nipulated by preachers and 
politicians. All of us have 
spent a lot of our lives avoid¬ 
ing dealing with people who 
can’t deal with us. It is clear to 
me, however, that we are 
strong and mature enough to 
accept the challenge of estab¬ 
lishing relationships of respect 
with every other group in this 
city, certainly including the 
people who support Quentin 
Kopp. 

I t’s no secret that one of my 
best friends on the Board is 
Wendy Nelder. If anyone rep¬ 
resents “old San Francisco,” 
it’s Wendy. Her voting record 
is very conservative; she finds 
no fault with the police, and 
she has yet to make any seri¬ 
ous effort to earn Gay sup¬ 
port. Nonetheless, we have 
become friends and I’m still 
optimistic that our friendship 
will serve to improve under¬ 
standing between her consti¬ 
tuency and mine. 

And why not? Many of the 
changes that are happening in 
our city are just as much a 
problem for Gays, Asians, 
Blacks, and Latinos as they 
are for the Irish and Italians. 
The same pressures from 
downtown that are threaten¬ 
ing to wipe out Chinatown 
and destroy the Gay world 
South of Market are also dis¬ 
placing merchants on 
Clement Street and causing 
density problems in Pacific 
Heights. In the last year much 
of my time has been spent in 
conservative areas of the city, 
working with people fighting 
to save their neighborhoods. 
Finally, the survival of all our 
neighborhoods depends on 
the recognition of our com¬ 
mon interests by all San Fran¬ 
ciscans, conservative and 
progressive, straight and Gay. 

T he legitimate beef that 
Lesbians and Gay men 
have with Supervisor Quentin 
Kopp is that he has not al¬ 
ways used his position of 
leadership to bring about bet¬ 
ter relationships between San 
Francisco’s communities. He 
has taken strong negative 
stands on issues important to 
labor, Gays, and racial and 
language minorities. By cater¬ 
ing to the fears of his constitu¬ 
ents he has labeled himself as 
a “backlash” politician. 

We must be skeptical about 
the “new” Quentin Kopp that 
may be emerging. On the 
other hand, we underestimate 
ourselves and compromise 
our interests if we aren’t will¬ 
ing to give him a chance to 
earn our support by working 
with us on issues important to 
us. Watch him. ■ 


Elaine Noble Faces 
lnd Grand Jury 


Boston’s first up-front Les¬ 
bian elected to state office, 
Elaine Noble was questioned 
again by a Grand Jury last 
month. 

Noble, currently an aide to 
Mayor Kevin H. White, was 
on the witness stand for five 
hours. She was called to ex¬ 
plain her role in the case of 
John M. Williams, who is 
serving a three-year federal 
prison sentence for attempted 
extortion. 

Williams, Mayor White’s 
former Ward 13 political co¬ 
ordinator, pleaded guilty in 
March to attempted extortion 
of $50,000 from a prospec¬ 
tive developer, Anthony 
D’Alesandro. 

This is Noble’s second ap¬ 
pearance before the Grand 
Jury; last December she ap¬ 
peared for three hours of tes¬ 
timony. Once again, on the 
advice of her attorney, Noble 



refused comment. 

In an interview after Wil¬ 
liams’ arrest, Noble said de¬ 
veloper D’Alesandro sought 
her help in securing designa¬ 
tion as builder of a $600,000 
project in Dorchester. D’Ale¬ 
sandro was operating at the 
time as an FBI undercover in¬ 
former. He said his conversa¬ 
tion with Noble was recorded 


on a hidden tape recorder 
provided him by the FBI dur¬ 
ing the agency’s probe of 
Williams. 

Noble said that D’Alesan¬ 
dro told her last November of 
Williams’ attempted extor¬ 
tion, but she waited two 
weeks before going to the 
state attorney general be¬ 
cause at first she did not be¬ 
lieve the developer. 

She went to authorities 
after learning that D’Alesan¬ 
dro had testified as a govern¬ 
ment witness in an Arizona 
fraud case. She said at the 
time she believed D’Alesan¬ 
dro was part of an FBI “sting” 
operation aimed at Mayor 
White. 

In an interview after Wil¬ 
liams’ conviction, informer 
D’Alesandro said that when 
he told Noble of the extortion 
attempt she replied: “Why do 
business with princes when 
you can do business with 
kings?” 

Noble maintains that the 
man misunderstood what she 
said. 




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Interview with Weedstock Hopefuls 


by Konstantin Berlandt 

Sister Boom Boom arrived 
out of habit and full of novo- 
caine, direct from the dentist, 
for this interview a week ago, 
June 24, held at pot hero 
Dennis Peron’s apartment. 

P. Pebbles, an organizer of 
Weedstock, was also there, 
the four of us sitting around 
on low couches beneath a 
veritable indoor jungle of 
hanging potted plants in a liv¬ 
ing room that continued on to 
be kitchen and beyond the re¬ 
frigerator two loft bunk beds, 
from which several of Dennis’ 
all very attractive roommates 
emerged later in the after¬ 
noon. 

Out of habit the infamous 
MC of numerous Sisters of 
Perpetual Indulgence events, 
Boom Boom seemed some¬ 
what more low key than 
when she led “San Francisco, 
open your Golden Gate” at 
the anti-Immigration Service 
rally on the bridge last Sep¬ 
tember. 

Boom Boom intends to an¬ 
nounce her candidacy for 
Board of Supervisors officially 
at the opening of Weedstock 
at Civic Center Plaza Satur¬ 
day, with or without a city 
permit. 

Dennis Peron, who with 
Pebbles arranged the inter¬ 
view, has been through it all 
before. High up among run¬ 
ners-up in the District 5 Su¬ 
pervisor scramble after Har¬ 
vey Milk’s assassination, Den¬ 
nis takes credit for helping 
now Supervisor Harry Britt 
win a narrow victory after 
Dennis’ endorsement during 
the runoff with another candi¬ 
date. 

Peron a few years ago cui 
his long hair that hung down 
to below his waist, now in c 
preppie cut that makes him 
cute as many a Castro clone 
in his neighborhood. 

Peron spearheaded the 
campaign for Proposition W 
in the '78 election, a policy 
statement by the people of 
San Francisco demanding 
“the District Attorney along 
with the Chief of Police cease 
the arrest and prosecution of 
individuals involved in the 
cultivation, transfer, or pos¬ 
session of marijuana. ” 


Somebody passed around 
a joint. 

“Remember the Cock- 
ettes?” Dennis Peron asked, 
going on to describe the Eric 
Clapton concert where they 
had been the warm-up act, 
decked out with six-foot-long 
dicks on their heads that 
squirted milk at the audience. 

Sister Boom Boom was an¬ 
swering a previous question. 
No, he had no aspirations of 
going on to Washington. He 
would not be using the Board 
of Supervisors as a stepping 
stone to there or the Vatican. 
“I lived ten years in D.C. Why 
would any sane person want 
to go to Washington?” 

Dennis asked, “Would the 
Sisters of Perpetual Indul¬ 
gence be running your cam¬ 
paign for city Supervisor?” 

It would conflict with the 
nonpolitical requirements in 
California’s 501-C3 nonprofit 
status the Sisters have applied 
for, Boom Boom answered, 
“But as individuals they will 
help out in one capacity or 
another.” 

Dennis noted that the Pope 
had ordered the clergy out of 


politics recently. Would that 
cause a conflict? “I know a lot 
of Catholics who use birth 
control too,” Boom Boom re¬ 
plied, adding he spoke direct¬ 
ly to God, “and she told me 
to run.” 

Nee Jack Fertig, now Sister 
Boom Boom of the Perpetual 
Indulgence order, (s) he/it is a 
native San Franciscan from 
six generations back. And un¬ 
like Lucille Ball, he confides, 
his hair is really that color. 
Posing for pictures in a make¬ 
shift bib that asks “Is it Supe 
yet?,” the red hair and paint¬ 
ed white face suggest Bozo 
the Clown or Howdy Doody’s 
silent partner Clarabelle. 

Boom Boom was on stage 
in habit Sunday at Lesbian/ 
Gay Freedom Day, leading 
the Sisters in a blessing and 
purge of VD. Before the hot 
pink background designed to 
set off performers in black and 
white, Boom Boom recom¬ 
mended to the crowd a home 
remedy for relieving guilt. 


Besides Sister Boom 
Boom’s campaign kick-off, 
the Sisters were planning to 
bless the leaf and grape Satur¬ 
day, and along with Dennis 
Peron, Coyote representative 
Priscilla Alexander, and Scar¬ 
let Harlot were scheduled to 
speak in a day dedicated to 
Sexual Liberation. 

Pebbles, with long braided 
hair and the relaxed lines on 
her face suggesting she’s tran¬ 
scended much, says she 
hopes for much Gay and Les¬ 
bian support for the proposed 
Victimless Crimes Coalition 
being organized during the 3- 
day event that would bring to¬ 
gether prostitutes, dope 
smokers, abortionists, and 
Gays. “Hands off our bodies 
— let’s decide for ourselves, 
people.” 

She hopes the 3-day 
Weedstock festival will set a 
precedent of nonintervention 
by police “into our parks.” 
She points out that previous 
Weedstock parties have been 



A very progressive Supe hopeful. Dennis Peron. and Weedstock organ¬ 
izer. Pebbles. (Photo: Rink) 


“Just drop these two tablets,” 
he said, flinging down the 
Ten Commandments in his 
arms. 

“Religion and politics can’t 
be separated,” he asserted at 
this interview a few days be¬ 
fore. “Look at the ‘Right to 
Lifers’ and prayers back in the 
schools. Politics and religion 
have been intertwined since 
Jehovah overthrew Tiamat (a 
Babylonian goddess) or the 
patriarchs overthrew goddess 
pagan worship.” 

On politics, Boom Boom 
took a jab at the patriarchs’ 
latest token goddess of idol 
worship. “San Francisco poli¬ 
tics has been compared to a 
donut, and (Mayor Dianne 
Feinstein)’s in the middle ... I 
want us to get out of that 
hole!” It sounded awfully like 
a campaign promise. Pebbles 
passed the joint our way. . . 

Pebbles was one of several 
people at the California Mari¬ 
juana Initiative headquarters 
here who were busted in May 
while planning for this event. 
(Another was busted for four 
joints in his pocket while post¬ 
ing a flyer for the event on 
24th Street.) According to 
Pebbles, while they were still 
being held in jail and unable 
to contest, the city withdrew 
their 3-day permit the first 
time. 

But organizers of the event 
informed city authorities then 
they could only take away 
their piece of paper, not their 
right to assemble. The event 
would go on as planned. The 
permit was restored, but since 
this interview the permit was 
revoked a second time. 


BAY AREA REPORTER JULY I, 1982 PAGE 18 


peaceful affairs with hardly a 
bust or police problem. She 
promoted the drug as a pana¬ 
cea to the world’s troubles: 
“Marijuana smokers aren’t 
aggressive. It just makes you 
high.” She added that Weed- 
stock promoters had prom¬ 
ised the Park and Rec’ De¬ 
partment. to leave the Plaza 
the same or better than in the 
condition they may find it. 
She tells of sharp-eyed, slow- 
moving dopers at Dolores 
Park for a previous gathering 
who picked up even the cigar¬ 
ette butts left by previous park 
goers in the grass. 

On the subject of the Mayor 
she said very little: “She does 
not do anything for pot smok¬ 
ers or hookers.” 

Boom Boom was more for¬ 
giving. “She seems to have 
very little imagination, but I’ve 
lived with worse. Joe Alioto, 
for example.” 

Peron criticized Feinstein 
for not enforcing Proposition 
W, an anti-grass busts initia¬ 
tive that passed with 66% of 
the vote, according to Peb¬ 
bles. “Yet there’s dope busts 
going on all the time — a 
clear violation of the people’s 
will,” Dennis maintained. 
“But she says, ‘All the facts 
aren’t in.’ Alcohol kills 50,000 
a year on the highways, not 
to mention by liver cirrhosis, 
and then there’s cigarettes, 
but ‘all the facts aren’t in on 
marijuana.’ We know you’re 
too happy on it, that’s all,” 
Dennis laughed. 

Pebbles advocated electing 
the Police Chief next time 
around. Peron favors electing 
the entire police force by dis¬ 


trict. “They could run on their 
stand on Prop. W,” he got 
excited. “Then if the Sunset 
wanted to elect Nazis to break 
down their doors and bust 
themselves for dope, they can 
have ’em.” 

The problem with the po¬ 
lice, he continued, is “who 
they serve. They’re trying to 
serve the people of Novato — 
here. And it doesn’t work.” 

Pebbles said flatly, “Any¬ 
one who has that much 
power on their hip should be 
elected.” 

Dennis pointed out that 
even judges are elected, 
though those appointed first 
run as incumbents. He 
named a judge who had cam¬ 
paigned with the promise not 
to enforce marijuana laws. 
Cops, he concluded “should 
be more responsive to the 
people’s need than the peo¬ 
ple’s anger.” 

Boom Boom observed, 
“Cops get paid to cruise mas¬ 
sage parlors and buy dope. It 
isn’t such a bad life.” 

“If they have to pay some¬ 
one,” Dennis volunteered, 
“we’ll do it. It’s our money 
anyway. They’d only be giv¬ 
ing it back to us.” 

Pebbles and Dennis ex¬ 
changed their own dope bust 
stories. Pebbles joined the 
Marijuana Initiative Move¬ 
ment after she was busted the 
first time for dope. Her sec¬ 
ond bust at the organization’s 
headquarters was initiated by 
an agent who had first signed 
a sworn statement that he was 
not an agent, Pebbles alleged. 

Dennis has been busted 15 
or 16 times. During one ar¬ 
rest, he says, he was shot in 
the leg by police. “Have you 
ever been busted, Boom 
Boom?,” Dennis asks. 
Shades of Senator Eagleton 
— is there something in your 
closet? 

No, the Sister admitted, 
“but on White Night I was 
close enough to see how vi¬ 
cious they (the cops) could 
be.” In the midst of the 
melee, Boom Boom tells of 
seeing one of his family’s 
neighbors in his riot gear 
warning him to get away: 
“Please, Jack, I don’t want to 
have to hurt you,” his long¬ 
time friendly neighbor said. 

Dennis remembers more 
fondly that night, when pro¬ 
testers pelted police and City 
Hall and roasted a few squad 
cars in anger over the Dan 
White jury verdict meting out 
a mere “voluntary man¬ 
slaughter” conviction to the 
Twinkie double assassin. 

“It was a nice night,” Den¬ 
nis recalls, “uplifting. Life has 
been a struggle every day, 
every year. For one glorious 
moment we won. It felt 
good.” 

He asked Pebbles if she 


had known there had been a 
smoke-in at Civic Center the 
day before the May 21st/79 
riot. A stack of beer cans and 
trash gathered into a pile for 
garbage pickup had provided 
ammo during the next night 
of protest. 

“We had a near mini-riot 
on the day of the smoke-in,” 
he said, “when some guy 
erroneously reported that 
Dan White had been acquit¬ 
ted of murder. We had to 
calm everyone down with the 
truth.” 

Peron turned back to the 
new candidate for Super¬ 
visor. “Well, you’re right on 
the marijuana issue, but what 
about prostitution?” Another 
wing of the Victimless Crimes 
Coalition. Coyote’s founder, 
Margot St. James had also 
been invited to the interview 
but had had a schedule con¬ 
flict. “I wonder if we could get 
Margot to endorse your cam¬ 
paign,” Dennis strategized out 
loud. 

“Well, I’ve already en¬ 
dorsed hers,” Sister Boom 
Boom replied immediately. 
“When I started hooking, as 
soon as I put my ad in the 
paper I joined Coyote.” Turn¬ 
ing philosophical, he said, 
“Times are hard and jobs are 
scarce.” He shrugged at split¬ 
ting hairs within the “free 
enterprise” system. 

“Sex and drugs ought to be 
free,” Pebbles commented, 
“and if not free, then cheap.” 

“And protected,” adds 
Dennis’ roommate Eric 
Garek, one of several who 
had emerged from the bunk 
beds at the far side of the 
kitchen. Sitting in the circle, 
Eric was trying to wake up be¬ 
fore his evening waiter shift. 

Pebbles reiterated that 
Weedstock should also be 
protected — from the cops. 
Dennis reminded everyone 
that the Gay movement — 
the “come out” movement — 
had germinated in the anti- 
War and marijuana move¬ 
ments. Once enjoying some¬ 
thing called illegal, he said, “It 
gives you the strength to defy 
authority.” 

“We ended the Vietnam 
War,” Pebbles said proudly. 

“But something seems 
stalled now or gone back¬ 
wards,” Dennis pondered. 

“Hookers, Gays, Femin¬ 
ists, Heads — unite!” Pebbles 
piped up a chant for the Vic¬ 
timless Crimes Coalition. 
Peron suggested they could 
use the Reagan promise 
“Government off our backs!”: 
“Cops off our backs!” 

And out of our parks!” 
Pebbles said again. 

But like Clarabelle, who 
never spoke but always told 
the truth on the Howdy 
Doody Show, Sister Boom 
Boom just smiled. ■ 


Forum on KS 

A free, public forum on 
Kaposi’s sarcoma and related 
immune deficiency diseases 
will be held Wednesday, July 
7, in the State Building Audi¬ 
torium, 350 McAllister Street, 
at 6pm. 

Sponsored by the Kaposi’s 
Sarcoma Research and Edu¬ 
cation Foundation, Inc., the 
forum will include a slide 
show and panel discussion 
with the most current medical 
data on the outbreak of KS 
and pneumocystis pneu¬ 


monia as well as information 
on warning signals and pre¬ 
ventive measures. 

In addition, the KS Foun¬ 
dation will maintain an infor¬ 
mation and education cam¬ 
paign directed at medical pro¬ 
fessionals and the public. The 
Foundation also hopes to 
fund medical research into 
the causes and treatment of 
immune deficiency diseases. 
The KSREF office is located 
at 520 Castro Street; the tele¬ 
phone number is 864-4376. 










JOSEPH L. FOLSOM: 

The Tycoon Behind the Street Name 

by George Mendenhall 

“He was above reproach,” recalls an early history book on San Francisco. “He is a quiet man, high 
toned in his sense of honor, gentlemanly in deportment, a fine soldier, and an agreeable companion 
among his intimate friends. His military education has given him perhaps a little formality of man¬ 
ners, but there is good reason to believe that there is no lack in his+ieart of those qualities which con¬ 
stitute the firm and valued friend and worthy citizen.” 


Joe Folsom’s biography is a 
gross exaggeration of a man 
whose sense of self-impor¬ 
tance and business ruthless¬ 
ness can be found by digging 
deep into the diaries of the 
1847-1855 period when he 
lived in San Francisco. In 
these brief eight years he was 
to firmly establish himself as 
one of the city’s most respect¬ 
ed citizens. He died at 38, a 
multi-millionaire. 

The remarkable story of 
Folsom began with his birth in 
New Hampshire in 1817. He 
entered the Army in the In¬ 
fantry as a teenager, and by 
age 19 he was leading his 
men in battles against the 
Seminole Indians in Florida. 
After his victories he took the 
Indians to western reserva¬ 
tions where they were incar¬ 
cerated. These recognized 
“patriotic” achievements won 


him a teaching position at 
West Point, at age 27. 

Restless for more battles, 
Folsom later applied three 
times to join his former regi¬ 
ment which was now fighting 
in the war with Mexico. Each 
time he was denied, but even¬ 
tually he was offered the posi¬ 
tion of Quartermaster in San 
Francisco, then known as 
Yerba Buena. He accepted 
the position on the condition 
that he be made a Captain. 
After considerable debate, he 
got his wish. 

The youthful, aggressive 
Folsom — who evidently nev¬ 
er married — served as Quar¬ 
termaster, the first federal em¬ 
ployee to serve as a collector 
of federal money in Califor¬ 
nia, from 1847-1851. He 
was receiving a comfortable 
income plus taking in money 
for safekeeping from the 


Mexican-American War rag¬ 
ing further to the South. 

While serving as Quarter¬ 
master, Folsom had estab¬ 
lished a friendship with a 
wealthy Black, William 
Leidesdorff. His friend had 
amassed a fortune through 
building wharfs, importing 
lumber, and making huge 
land purchases in the area. 
Leidesdorff was not a U.S. 
citizen, although he became 
City Treasurer and supervised 
the building of the city’s first 
public school. 

Leidesdorff died at 38, and 
Folsom was named the 
temporary administrator of 
his estate. Folsom saw a gold¬ 
en opportunity. He took sev¬ 
en months leave, traveling to 
Jamaica, and purchased 
$650,000 in San Francisco 
land from Leidesdorff’s heirs 
for only $75,000. He re¬ 
turned to parlay this new for¬ 
tune. It is estimated that when 
he died at 38 — only six years 
later — he was worth $3 
million. 

Not much is known about 
Joseph Folsom’s personal 
life, as the ancient history 
books gloss over much with 
euphemistic praise. It was dis¬ 
covered that in 1848 he 
formed a group to protest 
Blacks migrating to Califor¬ 
nia, he was a founder of the 
Society of California Pio¬ 
neers, and owned the land at 
3rd and Mission Streets (now 
Moscone Center) where he 
once used troops to oust 
“squatters” in 1854. There is 
no question that he made 
considerable money from the 
Gold Rush which began in 
1848. • 

Today, Folsom Street goes 
through land that evidently 
was part of Captain Folsom’s 
empire. By day it is a small- 
industry and warehouse area 
and by night, an internation¬ 
ally known recreational area 
for Gay men with its many 
bars, baths, and private clubs. 



Washington, D.C. 


Mayor Barry Names Gay Liaison 


David Vos, a member of 
the Gertrude Stein Demo 
Club with extensive political 
experience, has been named 
by the Barry campaign as Li¬ 
aison to the Lesbian and Gay 
community. Vos, 28, re¬ 
signed as National Press Sec¬ 
retary of the Americans for 
Democratic Action in order to 
accept this full-time, paid 
campaign position. 

In announcing the appoint¬ 
ment on May 20, Anita 
Bonds, Deputy Manager of 
Citizens to Re-elect Marion 
Barry, said, “We are eager for 
active Gay participation in the 
Mayor’s re-election effort and 
we are grateful to have a per¬ 
son with David’s political and 
professional skills to help or¬ 
ganize in one of the most im¬ 
portant constituencies of the 
District.” 

Vos sees his task as “mak¬ 
ing sure that the Gay efforts to 
elect Barry mesh smoothly 
into the overall campaign.” 



Toward that goal, he will 
work closely with Stein Cam¬ 
paign Coordinator Joe Tom 
Easley and other Gay and 
Lesbian community leaders. 


A graduate of the Univer¬ 
sity of Michigan, Vos worked 
for four years as the Legis¬ 
lative Assistant to the Demo¬ 
cratic leadership of the Michi¬ 
gan State Senate. In 1977, he 
was elected as the youngest 
Congressional District Demo¬ 
cratic Chairman in the state 
and, for six years, was a 
member of Michigan’s Demo¬ 
cratic State Central Commit¬ 
tee. 

As a Kennedy delegate to 
the 1980 Democratic Con¬ 
vention, Vos actively partici¬ 
pated in the Lesbian and Gay 
Caucus. He was also a dele¬ 
gate to the 1974 and 1978 
Mid-Term Democratic Con¬ 
ferences and a member of the 
1976 Rules Committee. In 
addition to his party activity, 
Vos served aS Chair of the 
Michigan chapter of the ADA. 
He was recently elected to the 
Board of ADA’s Greater 
Washington Chapter. 


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Film Clips 
by Michael Lasky 
Tone Deaf 
by Jerry De Gracia 
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I Love A Parade 


CORTEGE 

(A Nose with Sore Feet?) 

THE parade and celebra¬ 
tion have passed into the past 
. . . they are now a part of hi¬ 
story and memory. And those 
memories can be justifiably 
proud ones, to be sure. Ger¬ 
trude Stein just has to be smil¬ 
ing somewhere . . . Oakland 
made its existence known; 


NEZ PAS 

and all who witnessed the 
spectacular, professional pre¬ 
sentation are well aware of 
the goodness that can come 
from this side of the Bay. 

If I could cast a vote, it 
would have to place Oak¬ 
land’s entry as number one! 
The well-rehearsed Pom Pon 
Cheerleaders,'' who preceded 
the float, proved just what 


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“practice” means . . . they 
rank up there with the best of 
them. The float was a multi¬ 
effort production, which dem¬ 
onstrated that Oakland can 
get its shit together when it 
really wants to! Nothing but 
laudatory comments can be 
made about “our little sec¬ 
tion” of the parade! 

Plaudits, kudos, praise, 
commendation — all must be 
given to the entire group re¬ 
sponsible for the entry. The 
countless hours of dedication, 
sweat, tears, rehearsal, plan¬ 
ning . . . not to mention actu¬ 
al work . . . certainly paid off. 
Each and every one who was 
a part of the fulfillment — 
from money donors, idea giv¬ 
ers, coordination planners, 
committee heads, “brow 
beaters,” construction work¬ 
ers, etc. — can be proud that 
they made Oakland proud! 


CANTLETS AND DOLES! 

(A Disected Nose?) 

Entertainment? The crowd 
participating in the Lake 
Lounge’s Gemini/Cancer 
Party certainly witnessed 
more than they expected! 
Made up as the clown in Pag- 
liacci, the entertainer finished 
a set, left the stage, and 
pounced upon the end of the 
bar. He then crawled down 
the bar on hands and knees, 
scattering drinks, change, 
ashtrays, whatever, in all di¬ 
rections. When the realization 
dawned that this was definite¬ 
ly NOT a part of his act, he 
was ordered off the bar, 
whereupon he leaped on the 
bartender and bit him on the 
arm! Needless to say, there 
was no encore requested! 
Hats off to the loyal patrons 
who pitched in and got the 
mess cleaned up post haste, 
so the party could continue! 

Booze! Ollie’s, on Tele¬ 
graph, now serves a full line 
of liquor, along with their 
beers and wines, so saunter in 
and enjoy your favorite mixed 
drink ... or straight shots, 
if you prefer! 

Puzzlement! Revol’s long¬ 
time bartender, Rick, showed 
up one day with a huge hick- 
ey on his neck . . . and he 
cannot remember from whom 
it was received! Will someone 
out there confess so the mys¬ 
tery can be solved? 

Teaser! Word has it that the 
Tricycle Race, the Tavern 
Guild Picnic, and the Gay 
Day Parade were all video¬ 
taped and will be presented 
for viewing shortly at one of 
our local pubs ... no definite 
details as yet, but when infor¬ 
mation arrives, I’ll pass on the 
details. 


THE CONTEST 

I’m still waiting to buy din¬ 
ner ... If I ever get a winner! 
So don’t hesitate . . . here is 
clue number eight! 

So many guesses ... all 
wrong so far; 

To be totally honest, it’s 
NOT in a bar! 

Not downtown, uptown, or 
out on the Bay; 

But a place some pass many 
a day! 

Don’t try a smile a day . . . 
try smiling all day! 

Love, Nez ■ 


SAN JOSE: 

FROM THE ROSEGARDEN 


Down with Boycotts) 


TOM ROGERS 


Is it true that the Tinker’s 
Damn was prevented from 
renting a booth space at the 
San Jose Gay Freedom Day 
Rally because the Watergar- 
den threatened to boycott the 
Rally if Tinker’s Damn was 
allowed to participate? 

If it’s true, I’ll bet the Lamb¬ 
da Rally Committee is kicking 
itself for siding with the Water- 
garden now. (The Watergar- 
den U-Hauled its display of x- 
rated movie tapes and an as¬ 
sortment of leather-oriented 
trinkets out of the Rally.) 



The Rally, in my opinion, 
was to have been a represen¬ 
tation of the whole commu¬ 
nity. The Tinker’s Damn, re¬ 
gardless of its controversial 
stance on the “10 for 10” plan 
two years ago, is still a meet¬ 
ing place of a few thousand 
Gays in this town. 

As much as I respect the 
political activism records of 
Lambda and the Watergarden 
leadership, I reserve the right 
to decide for myself whose el¬ 
bows I’ll rub and where I’ll rub 
them. (Is that a pun?) 

How can any one man, or 
for that matter, any group 
(much) smaller than the 
whole of this community pre¬ 
sume to cut off such a sub¬ 
stantial part of this community 
as large as the clientele of the 
Tinker’s Damn? (As in “Who 


the hell do they think they 
are, anyway?”) 

Like the rest of this town’s 
Gay community, the Tinker’s 
Damn has proven that it’s 
here to stay. And why not? 

Proponents of this two- 
year boycott would no doubt 
argue that some degree of 
discipline on both defensive 
and offensive action for the 
community must be main¬ 
tained if that community is to 
remain united. These pro¬ 
ponents feel that the threat of 
punishment is the way to 
achieve unity. I couldn’t dis¬ 
agree more. 

Our struggle for freedom as 
Gays is based on the premise 
that we have the right to be 
different and/or to act differ¬ 
ently. We’re fighting for the 
right to live without fear of 
economic and social sanc¬ 
tions against us for daring to 
be different. 


If disagreement arises in a 
group, the need for commu¬ 
nication increases. 



Darlene, running for Empress on a 
joint ticket with Dennis. 


Communication is the key 
for unity. It establishes agree¬ 
ment. Agreement establishes 
affinity. Affinity (love, unity) 
is the ideal for which we strive 
in our struggle to become 
freely accepted members of 
society at large. 

(Continued on Page 22) 



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SAN JOSE 

(Continued from Page 20) 

Boycotts are power trips. 
The only power trip I appreci¬ 
ate is in bed (sometimes). 


★ ★ ★ 


Thursday evening at the 
Tinker’s Damn is Nuts and 
Bolts Night. Something about 
drinking, dancing, and screw¬ 
ing. I think I’ll take me to 
Tinker. 

Speaking of nuts and bolts 
brings me to a recently dis¬ 
cussed controversy relative 
pornography. Specifically 
relative whether cocks and 
balls should be displayed in 
the photography in B.A.R. 


I say yes! Let it all hang out. 
I show mine off as often as 
possible, and love other guys 
who do. If that makes me bla¬ 
tantly Gay, then so be it! 

★ ★ ★ 

Darlene and Dennis are 
running on a joint ticket for 
the titles of Empress and Em¬ 
peror de San Jose. They 
have slated some campaign 
events for the few weeks that 
remain before Coronation, 
July 17. The first is a Country 
and Western Night to be held 
Monday night, June 28. A 
Pinata Night is slated for July 
6 at the Savoy beginning at 
7pm and at noon on July 11 
at the Toyon a Sunday 
Brunch and Fun Fair. The 
first fifty people to arrive at 


the Brunch and Fun Fair will 
receive tickets for their first 
drink — well, beer, or wine 
for fifty cents. 

Speaking of the Toyon, I 
wanted to congratulate Kevan 
on the acquisition of the for¬ 
mer Red Boar in Cupertino. It 
reopens July 1 as“Kevan’s.” 

Congratulations also to 
Dennis and Mike. Their 
restaurant concession at the 
Main Street on Stockton is 
great. Good food and good 
service Thursday through 
Sunday. 

Sorry to lose Aunt Helen’s 
Galley to the ugly jaws of the 
IRS. We’ll miss you. ■ 

Tom Rogers 


Gay Men's Music Festival 


The First North American 
Gay Men’s Music Festival, 
three days of music, work¬ 
shops and community events, 
will be held in Minneapolis, 
Minnesota, over Labor Day 
Weekend, September 3-5. 
The event will be sponsored 
by Voices & Visions Produc¬ 
tions, a collective of Gay men 
based in Minneapolis. 

“We want to present non¬ 
sexist music that nurtures us 
as Gay men, celebrating our 
diversity in an affirming and 
nonthreatening environ¬ 
ment,” says Ken Majerus of 
Voices & Visions Produc¬ 
tions. “We’ve been interested 
in this Festival for several 
years. It’s a project close to 
my heart and I’m glad to see it 
becoming a reality.” 

Three mainstage concerts 
and at least two matinees are 


planned; workshops on song¬ 
writing, performance and 
production, a tentatively 
planned community meal and 
other events will round out 
the weekend. Mainstage per¬ 
formers will tentatively in¬ 
clude: Tom Wilson, a Minne¬ 
apolis based singer who just 
released his second album, 
All American Boy; Charlie 
Murphy, popular folksinger 
from Seattle; Chris Tanner, 
author of the song “Sensitive 
Little Boy,” from Milwaukee, 
Oregon; David Sereda, pian¬ 
ist and singer from Vancou¬ 
ver, B.C.; and the Quinlan 
Sisters, purveyors of stylish a 
cappella political satire, from 
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. 
Regional performers are be¬ 
ing sought from Boston, 
Phoenix, Philadelphia, 
Montreal, and Winnipeg. The 
producers are consulting 
grassroots - organizations and 
Gay men’s production groups 


throughout North America for 
suggestions on additional per¬ 
formers and all suggestions 
are welcome. 


Cost of the weekend will be 
$30 (U.S.) for registration 
prior to August 15, $40 
(U.S.) after that date. Site for 
the Festival has yet to be con¬ 
firmed, but will be wheelchair 
accessible and easily reached 
by Minneapolis public trans¬ 
portation. Concerts will be 
signed for the hearing im¬ 
paired; childcare and limited 
weekend housing will be 
available for those who pre- 
register. 

Pre-registration payments 
should be postmarked no 
later than August 15 and sent 
to: Voices & Visions Produc¬ 
tions, P.O. Box 3549, Minne¬ 
apolis, MN 55403. 


Lesbian Presides Over 
Ex-Husband's Marriage 


It’s one big happy family for 
Jim Spahr, a life insurance 
agent from San Rafael. For 
13 years he was a happily 
married man. He and his wife 
raised two boys. Although he 
and Jane separated in 1977 
and later divorced, they are 
still friends. 

Jane had also known Jac¬ 
queline Patton for several 
years. On July ,10, Jim Spahr 
and Jacqueline will be mar¬ 
ried. The officiating minister 
will be none oth'er than Jane 


Spahr. (Are you still with 
me?) 

Jane, now an up-front Les¬ 
bian, also happens to be one 
of the ministers of the Metro¬ 
politan Community Church, 
Eureka Street branch. 

Nuptials for this happy 
group will be at the Christ 
Presbyterian Church in San 
Rafael. Presumably, Jim and 
Jane’s 13 and 15-year old 
sons will be in attendance, as 
will Jane’s lover of two years. 


For those who don’t need hand guns: 
Pack a whistle! 



San Jose’s newest bar is Main Street, at 737 Stockton. A 
cross between an old west bar and a turn of the century San 
Francisco saloon, Main Street has pool, video games, and a 
movie room with a large 52" screen for all the latest movies 
and TV shows. A computerized lighting display announces 
attractions such as the 69-cent well drink special during the 
month of July. The full kitchen features brunches and lunch 
specials. Manager Don welcomes you, as does the staff 
(front, 1 to r) Shane, Mario, Jim and (rear) Steve, Jim, and 
Dom. 


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TAGE SCREEN SHOWS ROCK OPERA INTERVIEWS BOOKS MUSIC THE ARTS STAGE SCREEN SHOWS ROCK OPERA INTERVIEWS BOOKS MUSIC THE ARTS STAGE SCREEh 


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Tapping Terpers 

The San Francisco Tap 
Troupe has been an audi¬ 
ence favorite since its cre¬ 
ation in June of 1980. The 
Troupe first performed with 
the San Francisco Gay Free¬ 
dom Day Marching Band 
and Twirling Corps. Since 
that time it has appeared at 
numerous concerts, but nev¬ 
er without the sponsorship 
of the band. A brand new 
show, titled 5 ... 6 ... 7 
... 8 will open a two-week 
run July 2 at the Victoria 
Theatre, and marks the first 
time the Troupe will perform 
independently. 

Appearing in the Troupe’s 
show will be jazz and blues 
singer Linda Tillery, accom¬ 
panied by Mary Watkins, 
vocalist Tony Alfano, come¬ 
dienne Camille Hoffman, and 
the Barbary Coast Cloggers. 
These performers will com¬ 
plement the starring routines 
of the Tap Troupe. One of 
these, “Sin’ Sin’ Sin’” is per¬ 
formed to Benny Goodman’s 
“Sing Sing Sing” and includes 
a fire-eating and twirling rou¬ 
tine. Another special routine 
is the transformation of the 
classic “42nd Street” song to 
“Castro Street.” 


Second Crossing 

Nikos Diaman brought 
his third and newest book. 
Second Crossing , into the 
B A R. offices to tell us 
about it and announce the 
book-signing party on Wed¬ 
nesday, July 7, from 7 to 
10pm at Valencia Rose (766 
Valencia). 

“The book just arrived to¬ 
day,” Diaman enthused, 
“1,000 copies in 25 cartons, 
40 to a carton. I have to 
ship them out across the 
country, but I deliver them 
in person to San Francisco 
stores.” 

The book arrived at Dia- 
man’s home because he’s a 
self-published author. “I 
wanted control over my own 
art. It’s satisfying to know I’ve 
done every aspect of the book 
except for the actual manu¬ 
facturing. I wrote it, typeset it. 
commissioned the artwork, 
did the PR and advertising, 
and distributed it. It’s impor¬ 
tant to know you can do a 
thing like that. 

“I’m a native. I was born 
here and came out here. 1 
started Second Crossing ten 
years ago as an autobiogra¬ 
phy, since I felt there should 
be autobiographies of 
‘normal’ Gay people instead 
of just celebrity memoirs. 
Then I decided to change its 
format to fiction, and spent 
one year actually writing it. 

“It deals with coming out in 
the 1950’s and the conflict be¬ 
tween Gayness and religion, 
specifically Catholicism. It 
deals with working at a non- 
related job to support working 
on one’s art. It covers a liter¬ 
ary circle that existed. Most of 
the characters are based on 
real people. But it’s not hi¬ 
story. it’s fiction. I compared it 
to my journals of the period 



The* 19 men and 5 women 
of the Troupe range in age 
from 22 to 48 and hoof for 
the fun of it. To support them¬ 
selves and pay the Troupe’s 
bills they work at the usual 
variety of jobs — accounting, 
bartending, data processing, 
housecleaning, teaching and 
more. But they all unite when 
their tap shoes are on, and in 
the last nine months alone 
have performed at 25 func- 


and found things had oc¬ 
curred differently, so I chose 
the fictional form. Now I pre¬ 
fer the fictionalized version 
over my journal. I enjoyed 
the freedom to write the book 
and relive my life, streamlin- ‘ 
ing, telescoping, making it 
into a whole tapestry instead 
of single threads. 


“Although only the Gay 
press reviewed my earlier 
books. I’ve sent copies to 
mainstream reviewers, in¬ 
cluding the New York Times 
Review of Books. But there’s 
been a certain homophobia, 
as well as a disinterest in non¬ 
major press works, in the 
straight press. But I’m opti¬ 
mistic.” 


tions, including the Cabaret 
Gold Awards, the Caldron’s 
Olympic benefit, the Sym¬ 
phony’s Black and White 
Ball, “Jubilee” at Davies Hall, 
and the notorious Closet Ball. 

5...6. ..7...8 will be 
performed July 2, 3 and 9, 
10, 11 at 8:30pm, with the 
last performance a 2 pm mati¬ 
nee. Tickets, at $7.50, are 
available at both Headlines 
stores. 



We Are Here 

A Gay anthem for the 
1980’s may be emerging 
from Phoenix, Arizona. 
Local songwriter Bill Folk 
wrote the song “We Are 
Here” for Arizona’s First 
Lesbian and Gay Rights 
March in June of 1981. The 
song became so popular 
that a 45rpm single was re¬ 
cently recorded in Nashville 
and released to coincide 



Musician Bill Folk 


with nationwide Gay Pride 
Week festivities. 

The message of “We Are 
Here” is important to the en¬ 
tire Gay movement. The song 
is one of hope, speaking of 
the possibilities for creative, 
individual and social change. 

Composer Folk said, "I’m 
very happy (about the rec¬ 
ord). This project has been 
important in expanding my 
own sense of Gay pride and is 
one way I can contribute to 
others and to Gay rights.” 

Folk believes, “We must 
confront our struggles, our 
pain and sorrow and express 
and release it; only when we 
do that can we find our inner 
sense of pride that brings joy 
and happiness.” 

The record will be on sale 
primarily in Gay and Feminist 
bookstores and can be had by 
mail order for $2.50 postpaid 
from Bright Moon Records, 
P.O. Box 44654, Phoenix, 
Arizona 85064 


JOIN THE CIRCUS! 

Gay Night at Circus Vargas 


Gay life in San Francisco, 
with its massive Halloweens, 
elaborate street fairs, unique 
dog shows, and continual 
Mardi Gras of parties, has fre¬ 
quently been likened to a cir¬ 
cus. And now, in a unique 
and fun event, a real circus is 
going Gay! 

On July 17, Great Out¬ 
doors Adventures (GOA) is 
presenting Gay Night at Cir¬ 
cus Vargas in conjunction 
with a Costume Gala and Tea 
Dance. Two entire circus 
shows will be presented for 
Gay audiences only. There is 
room for 8,400 people — 
4,200„at each show —- and if 
that sounds like a lot, remem¬ 
ber that 11,000 Gays attend¬ 
ed GOA’s outing at Great 
America amusement park. It 
looks like a sell-out, and the 
image of thousands of Gay 
men and women in circus 
costume is exciting. 

There are two “firsts” con¬ 
nected with this event. The 
occasion will mark the first 
time Circus Vargas has used a 
“Big Top” during a San Fran¬ 
cisco visit, and circus spokes¬ 
men claim it’s the world’s larg¬ 
est tent. The second occur¬ 
rence is perhaps of greater 
magnitude, and concerns Pier 
3 at Fort Mason. Part of the 
National Park Services, the 
facility has never before 
housed a commercial event 
or been used in the evening. 

It is a milestone that the first 
such use of the facility should 
be extended to a Gay organ¬ 
ization. Aryae Levy, head of 
GOA. told the B A R. that 
the director of Fort Mason got 
the permission from the Park 
Service specifically to aid the 
Gay community and the Ka¬ 
posi’s Sarcoma Foundation, 
which will benefit from the 


evening’s proceeds, as will 
the Gay Olympics. 

GOA organizer Levy points 
out other facts ticket holders 
should know. The Circus tent 
is in Crissy Field, where there 
is ample free parking. Do not 
park in the Marina or at Fort 
Mason. Shuttle buses will run 
every five minutes between 
Crissy Field and Fort Mason. 
To reach Crissy Field, take 
any street down to the Marina 
and proceed to the left direct¬ 
ly to the parking lot. 

No one will be admitted to 
the Costume Gala and Tea 
Dance after 11pm under Fort 
Mason rules. Therefore, you 
may wish to attend the 6 pm 
Circus show and spend the 
rest of the evening at the 
Dance. Those attending the 
8:30pm Circus show will be 
unable to return to the dance, 
and may attend the Dance 
first, since it begins at 5pm! 

The Dance will have live 
music from Smoke, Inc., a 
disco group, and David 
Kelsey and Pure Trash. An 
onstage costume competition 
will take place at 10 pm at Fort 
Mason, with prizes for Best 
Costume. Best Clown, Best 
Bearded Person. Best Animal 
Trainer, Best Animal, and 
Best Group Act. 

In another unusual occur¬ 
rence, GOA’s ability to use 
the combined events to bene¬ 
fit the Kaposi’s Sarcoma 
Foundation and the Gay 
Olympic Games has been aid¬ 
ed by the Circus Vargas own¬ 
ership. 

So get your costumes 
ready. Tickets are $8. and are 
available at Ticketron outlets. 
Headlines, and Gramophone 
stores. Information from 
GOA at 621-2400. 



Mother always said. “Glitter bright and ride a big pachyderm, honey. " Will 
the audiences of “Gay Night at Circus Vargas'' top this outfit? 


BAY AREA REPORTER JULY I, 1982 PAGE 23 



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STAGE 


Summer Fluff-Up 

Fortuitous Noel Coward Festival 

by Mark To'pkin 


There is a direct connec¬ 
tion, I think, between eco¬ 
nomic climate and the lure of 
the arts, especially the the¬ 
atre. In prosperity we look to 
the theatre to pull us into our¬ 
selves. affluence permitting 
the time and the means to in¬ 
dulge the yearnings of our 
deeper being. In paucity we 
look to the theatre to pull us 
out of ourselves; having little 
in reality, our need is more to 
escape from our beings into a 
lighter, more frivolous form. 

Our current economic 
downgrade, then, might ex¬ 
plain the resurgence of inter¬ 
est in Noel Coward, the dry, 
gentleman playwright/com- 
poser whose life and work 
seemed a total escape into the 
world of the rich, if brainless, 
social elite. To those without 
money during the last depres¬ 
sion, Coward’s plays (Private 
Lives. Design for Living, 
etc.) offered a chance to get 
lost in and laugh at the ways 


and woes of the wealthy. Fifty 
years later, during the current 
depression (a Gay man with¬ 
out disposable income is defi¬ 
nitely depressed), Coward’s 
plays still offer escape into a 
deco-draped, frivolous exis¬ 
tence where those with 
wealth are the worse for it. 

Berkeley Repertory follows 
Theatre Rhino’s Design and 
an encore of Champagne! In 
A Cardboard Cup (a revue of 
Coward’s music) with To¬ 
night at 8:30, a Noel Coward 
Summer Festival. Through¬ 
out the summer they will pre¬ 
sent, in repertory, three dif¬ 
ferent programs of Coward’s 
short plays. Program one, We 
Were Dancing and Ways 
and Means opened the 
festival last week and proved 
to be a typical sampler of 
Cowardian wit and whimsey. 

All the requisites are pres¬ 
ent. Both plays are appropri¬ 
ately set in luxury (Dancing 
in a country club on a tropical 


isle; Ways in a villa on the 
Cote D’Azure); appropriately 
populated by wealthy social¬ 
ites on holiday; and appropri¬ 
ately concerned with the 
maintenance of propriety in 
the face of imminent social 
disgrace. 

In We Were Dancing all 
concerned must remain prop¬ 
erly detached, thank you, as 
Louise informs her husband 
Hubert that she is leaving him 
for Karl; they have just fallen 
madly in love during their first 
dance together. In Ways and 
Means, Toby and Stella must 
recoup their casino losses or 
face the ultimate disgrace: be¬ 
ing discovered broke. 

All is light, airy and end¬ 
lessly amusing under Alex 
Kinney’s direction. Dancing 
kindles fantasies of moonlight 
romance; would that we all 
could fall in love with such 
unassuming self-indulgence 
as Louise (played delectably 
by Kimp Kimberly King). 
Ways is more madcap. The 
fantasy here is of fortuitous 
salvation from an embarrass¬ 
ing situation with Hope 
Alexander-Willis and Charles 
Dean providing the merri¬ 
ment. 

There are musical numbers 
too (all Coward) under Rich¬ 
ard Koldewyn’s very 30’s ar¬ 
rangements, plus wonderful 
period sets and costumes by 
Henry May and Deborah 
Brothers-Lowry respectively. 

Two more programs (Fam¬ 
ily Album/Brief Encounter 
and Shadow Play/Red Pep¬ 
pers) will follow so escapes 
into Cowardian enchantment 
can be repeatedly enjoyed. 
It’s fluff, to be sure, as this first 
program attests; but between 
ponderings of our pocket- 
books, let’s hear it for fluff! ■ 

Tonight at 8:30 

Berkeley Rep 

Thru Aug. 22; 845-4700 



Charles Dean (left). Stephen J. Godwin, and Hope Alexander-Willis 
graciously try to keep their penniless state secret in Noel Coward’s WAYS 
AND MEANS. 



Peter 

^ Montalbano's 

^ Royal Street 


Band 

Boogie & Jump Blues 


John 

^ Gallagher 

Band Country Rock 


Sun. July 11 


Tropical 


al Nights 

bo. Funk & Jazz /jTV 


Sun. July 18 

□rquesta Sabrosita 

All Women Salsa Band 


Sun. July 25 

Ghevere! 

Brazilian Jazz 


Madman’s Play for Love 

by Mark Topkin 


In Act Two of Pavel Ko- 
hout’s intriguing drama, Poor 
Murderer, we are witness to a 
play within a play within a 
play which clearly, and stun¬ 
ningly at that, reveals the last 
piece of a puzzle that begins 
to unravel at Poor Murder¬ 
er’s start. 

The setting is St. Elizabeth’s 
Institute for Nervous Dis¬ 
orders in St. Petersburg, Rus¬ 
sia. The year is 1900. Actors 
from the city’s prestigious the¬ 
atre academy have come to 
the asylum to participate in a 
performance of a play by one 
of the inmates, Anton Ignat¬ 
yevich Kerzhentsev. The play 
Kerzhentsev has written is a 
chronicle of his life, from 
childhood to the present, and 
each actor plays a variety of 
parts. But why has such a 
prestigious group consented 
to this? Why has Kerzhentsev 
been institutionalized? What is 
the purpose of performing a 
madman’s play? 

Those are but three of 
many questions that go un¬ 
answered for a bit in poor 
Poor Murderer. As the play 
progresses, they are revealed. 
(Kerzhentsev, for example, 
was the academy’s new, 
young star before his commit¬ 
ment to the asylum.) What 
we are left with at the end of 
the evening is a rich portrait of 
a sensitive man driven to 
sociopathic behavior by a life¬ 
time of unrequited love. This 
began with his belittling fath¬ 
er’s rejection and was intensi¬ 
fied by the casual rebuff of his 
love for a beautiful actress. 

The character Kerzhentsev, 
and Daniel Kozloff’s excellent 


portrayal of him, is intriguing 
enough, but the intrigue 
deepens significantly when 
played simultaneously in the 
past and present, in sanity 
and madness, in reality and 
dramatized fantasy. A multi¬ 
tude of characters, some fine¬ 
ly drawn, some only sketch¬ 
ed, contribute pieces to the 
puzzling situation, leading to 
the shattering climax which 
occurs during an enactment 
of a scene from Hamlet. 

Besides Kozloff’s strong 
performance, there is superi¬ 
or work by Trisha Schaller 
(who looks like a young Kath¬ 
erine Hepburn) as the actress 
who rebuffs Kerzhentsev, by 
Malcolm Dick as Kerzhent¬ 
sev’s mentor and rival, and by 
a uniformly strong supporting 
cast. 

Director Robert Jordan has 
managed to sustain clarity 
and dramatic tension during 
most of this complex work, a 
play that I think will continue 
to reveal more and more of it¬ 
self in subsequent viewings. 

Playwright Kohout is a 
Czechoslovakian dissident 
whose works have been 
banned in his own country. 
British playwright Tom Stop¬ 
pard, himself a writer of com¬ 
plex, theatrically intriguing 
plays, has been working to 
bring Kohout’s work to world¬ 
wide attention. This produc¬ 
tion of Poor Murderer at San 
Francisco Rep does indeed 
deserve your attention. It is 
full-bodied, well-played 
drama. ■ 

k 

Poor Murderer 

S.F. Rep 

Thru July 11; 864-3305 



Trisha Schaller and Daniel Kozloff in Pavel Kohout’s POOR MURDERER. 


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Theatre Rhinoceros has an¬ 
nounced its six-play season 
for the fall. Opening Septem¬ 
ber 30 is the world premiere 
of Robert J. Graham’s Sins of 
the Father, “une farce fran- 
cais et tres gate” to be directed 
by Allan Estes, artistic director 
of the Gay theatre ensemble. 

Sins will be followed on 
November 18 by My Blue 
Heaven, written by Jane 
Chambers, America’s leading 
Lesbian playwright, and to be 
directed by a female guest 
director. 


Arthur Laurents’ The En¬ 
clave opens January 6, 
1983, and Victor Bumbalo’s 
Niagara Falls on February 
24, followed by world pre¬ 
mieres of new plays by C.D. 
Arnold and Doric Wilson. 

Season tickets are now 
available and may be charged 
by calling Theatre Rhinoceros 
at 861-5079. Prices for the 
six-play season range from 
$25 to $36. For information, 
call 552-4100 or write The¬ 
atre Rhinoceros at 2940 16th 
Street *8, San Francisco, CA 
94103. 


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STAGE 


Doo Wop You Do To Me 

A Musical Wop Out 


by John F. Karr 



For those of us who are 
doo wop enthusiasts, the 
show which uses that musical 
style as its name is a must see. 
For others, it will be a happy 
discovery, a musical dyna¬ 
mite charge. Despite its sub¬ 
title, “A 50’s Rhythm and 
Blues Musical,” Doo Wop 
should not be compared to 
Grease, or produce visions of 
groups like Sha Na Na. Un¬ 
like these, Doo Wop respects 
the styles of its period, and is 
a feast of this rhythmic, close- 
harmony style. (See this 
week’s Tonedeaf column for 
a discussion of doo wop.) 

The program note explains 
that this street corner musical 
expression was a people’s 
music, created by teenagers 
in Black ghettos as one of the 
last great flowerings of grass 
roots American music. “It is 
now presented as a joyous 
celebration of the life and 
music of ghetto youths.” 

Therein lies the problem of 
Doo Wop. The musical score 
and its performance is of un¬ 
usual excellence. The script of 
the show, however, which 
presents the lives of the 
ghetto youth, is simplistic in 
the extreme. It is dispensed 
with rapidly, however, with 
only the briefest of waits be¬ 
tween musical explosions. 
Perhaps I was feeling expan¬ 
sive, due to the music’s 
charm, but I found the naive, 
cliche-ridden and underde¬ 
veloped script hardly an im¬ 
pediment, but charming in a 
folkloric manner. What 
Theatre Rhino provides for a 
Gay audience, Doo Wop 
does for the Black commu¬ 
nity. and it was fun for a 
honky like me to get in on the 
street life, earthy humor, and 
be-boppin’, fingersnapping 


The Hearttones (rear) go from street comer singers to contracted recording 
stars accompanied by their loyal girlfriends in DOO WOP. 


music. 

The show is almost all 
music, and sophisticated at 
times. It is amazing the way 
some of the songs, strictly 
within the doo wop formula, 
continue the plot action. 
Other songs are strictly set 
pieces, and showcase an exu¬ 
berantly talented cast. 

It ain’t the movie Sparkle, 
with its verisimilitude to Black 
street life, and it sure isn’t 
Dreamgirls with its slick and 
white commercial vision. But 
Doo Wop is live before our 


eyes, loaded with tunes and 
talent and the kind of energy 
that makes an audience im¬ 
patient during the intermis¬ 
sion for the second act to be¬ 
gin. Grant an indulgence to 
the script, and dig the music. 
There’s plenty of it, and you 
won’t be hearing doo wop 
anywhere else in town, that’s 
for sure. ■ 


Doo Wop 

Gill Theatre 

2100 Fulton at Cole 

Thru Aug. 17; 495-6566 



TONE DEAF TONE DEAF TONE 


RocH & Roll’s 
Age off Romance 


jERRY DE GRACIA 


best of them increased finan¬ 
cial success and setting exam¬ 
ples to those ghetto teenagers 
looking for a better life. 

At its peak, doo wop’s in¬ 
fluence could be heard on 
every urban ghetto street cor¬ 
ner in America; young Blacks 
were going to sing their way 
out and this phenomenon 
produced some of the sweet¬ 
est vocalizing rock music has 
ever known. 


"Rock ’n’ roll is a search for peace of mind and a good time. 
If punk is proof of how complex that search can be, doo wop 
is proof of how simple. ” 

— Griel Marcus, California Magazine 


The segmented history of 
rock and roll in America can 
be traced back to the first Afri¬ 
can slaves and up to contem¬ 
porary avant-garde electron¬ 
ics, but has only once touched 
the romantic heights it is ca¬ 
pable of inspiring. This era, 
the 1950’s, produced a musi¬ 
cal cornucopia of vocal har¬ 
monizing generally called 
“doo wop,” a less than gram¬ 
matical name based on the 
linguistics of the style which 
often involved back-up cho¬ 
ruses of “doo wop,” “do wa 
wa” and “sh-boom.” 

While doo wop reigned for 
a number of years as THE 
musical style, perhaps its soci¬ 
ological value is more impor- 


Artemis Team 


tant in reflection than its ro¬ 
mantic memories inspire. 

In 1947 Jackie Robinson 
joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, 
becoming the first Black base¬ 
ball player in the major 
leagues. This opened the 
door for Blacks to move into 
the mainstream of American 
society. Black contributions to 
the music industry were great, 
but in earlier years their mar¬ 
ketability to white audiences 
was still somewhat limited. 
Too many times the record 
industry used white artists to 
do “cover” versions of Black 
songs. The popularity of doo 
wop, however, brought Black 
groups closer to the white 
teenage audience, giving the 


While white groups picked 
up on the style, their overall 
influence was miniscule in 
comparison. 

In reflection, for those old 
enough to remember the mu¬ 
sic even if only as “golden 
oldies,” who can forget such 
treasures as “In The Still Of 
The Night” by The Five Sat¬ 
ins, the Monotones’ “Book of 
Love,” the Platters’ “Twilight 
Time” or the Drifters’ “Save 
The Last Dance For Me.” 

The fact that Black youth in 
the 1950’s managed to create 
and sustain a positive state¬ 
ment in doo wop living within 
the context of an oppressed 
minority only adds to the con¬ 
tradiction of punk rock’s neg¬ 
ativity and anarchy based on 
a white youth movement fi¬ 
nally feeling the strains of eco¬ 
nomic oppression formerly 
restricted to people of color. 


Cattle Co. Bands 


Terry Garthwaite performs 
an evening of music and 
poetry with Avotcja at the 
Artemis Cafe, Valencia at 
23rd, at 9pm on Saturday, 
July 3. Admission: $4. 


Sharon McNight appears at 
the Rainbow Cattle Company 
on Saturday, June 26, at 
9pm. 

Each Sunday in July at 
6 pm finds another live band 


providing music. Rose Mad¬ 
dox and the Rounders play 
July 4; the John Gallagher 
Band, July 11; the Rounders, 
July 18; and the Billy Band, 
July 25. 



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A few torture racks, a misaimed whipping or two, some sodomy, a little 
blow job, and this ornate confinement device all add up to ennui in the soft 
core FRUITS OF PASSION. 


Fruits of Passion 

Coolies in Heat 

It took two countries, Japan 
and France, to bring you the 
sequel to The Story of O. It 
will take a lot more to help 
you find anything interesting 
in it. For all the promise and 
suggestions that this is an orgy 
of S&M, Fruits of Passion is 
decidedly less. 

Klaus Kinski, who was ex¬ 
cellent as the vampire Nos- 
feratu, here just sucks. With 
his German accent he por¬ 
trays the veddy British Sir 
Stephen to whom O (Isabelle 
Illiers) has enslaved herself. 
She is taken to a Chinese 
brothel run by a drag queen 
madam (around the time of 
the native uprising known as 
the Boxer Rebellion) where 
she is to be broken in like a 
wild horse. 

Oh, sure, there are sexual 
shenanigans: a few torture 
racks, a misaimed whipping 
or two, a series of sodomiz- 
ings by Kinski, and a little 
Chinese blow job (little being 
the operative word). 

Sanwiched between this 
English language/subtitled 
ennui are enigmatic-for-the- 
sake-of-art allusions that 
would leave even a Freudian 
analyst confused. 

With the exception of the 
provocative, shimmering 
photography, this Story of O 
is like O herself: a bottom. 
The only letters that apply 
here are P.U. and Y. 
(Lumiere) ■ 

★ ★ ★ 

Blade Runner 

Not Too Sharp 

Ridley Scott’s Blade Run¬ 
ner has Harrison Ford playing 


a 21st century policeman 
whose sole job is to rid the 
world of “replicants,” robots 
that precisely duplicate hu¬ 
mans but which are program¬ 
med dangerously. 

His pursuit follows in the 
style of 40’s film noir detective 
stories with the sphere of fo¬ 
cus being a murky, downbeat 
impersonal city where every¬ 
one fends for himself. Ford is 
our voiceover tour guide of 
this hellish place (Los An¬ 
geles, 2019) and strangely, 
even his human sound is a 
monotoned drawl. 

Let’s face it, the guy’s got a 
difficult job: deciding who is 
human and who is a replicant 
is tricky business when every¬ 
body is acting mechanically. 

Scott’s pacing is absurdly 
slow and deliberate, which is 
surprising, since his last film, 
Alien, kept us in continuous 


animated suspense. The 
same savvy cinematic eye is 
here, though, and the physi¬ 
cal design of the film keeps us 
riveted, if nothing else does. 
This world is steely high tech 
where street signs, in fact 
everything, are computer¬ 
ized. Why even the atmo¬ 
spheric music by Chariots of 
Fire composer Vangelis is 
synthesized. It encapsulates 
us in this depressing night¬ 
mare city that is as eye¬ 
opening in its technical ad¬ 
vances as it is repellant in its 
equivalent uncorrected 
decay. 

With all this machinery, 
and Ford acting like a wind¬ 
up doll, there is no place for 
involvement or sympathy. 
What we are left with is a 
weakly plotted, slow paced 
movie — a computer without 
a program. 

(Coronet) 


Cabaret At Fanny's 

This Cozy Club Won the 1982 “Best Cabaret” Award 


You step into an elegant 
Victorian — circa 1893 — 
through a canopied brick side 
entrance, down a flight of 
stairs and you are in San 
Francisco’s most intimate 
cabaret. 

Fanny’s, at 4230 18th 
Street, two blocks off Castro, 
won the coveted CABARET 
GOLD AWARD as the Caba¬ 
ret of the Year from the San 
Francisco Council on Enter¬ 
tainment early this year. 

Fanny’s Cabaret has 45 
seats, 8 tables on the main 
floor and a few additional 
tables on a balcony that 
overlooks the main floor. The 
ambiance is country French 
with its rough dark stained 
oak walls, street view win¬ 
dows and dusty rose walls. 

Begun in 1973, by three 

Oohs for AHZ 

AHZ, the musical group 
with an amalgam of styles 
from Broadway to rock and 
roll, jazz to salsa, will be play¬ 
ing each Saturday night in 
July at the Off-Union Saloon, 
Van Ness at Union Street. 

The group now includes 
wind-player Rach Cztar and 
singer- composer Jerry Simp¬ 
son. Cztar is known for his. 
appearances with Terry 
Hutchison, while Simpson 
has sung his tunes at Fanny’s 
and other clubs. 

AHZ has been held over at 
the Off-Union since March, 
their “pop fusion” sound and 
upbeat feel making audiences 
feel good. 


former waiters from Union 
Street, cabaret at Fanny’s 
began in 1974 and took off 
the next year when Faye 
Carol began a three year 
appearance. Few missed the 
hottest act in the Castro, par¬ 
ticularly the last set on Sun¬ 
day afternoons. Faye Carol 
was followed by many new 
stars—Marlene Fontenay, a 
French chantuese in the 
genre of Edith Piaf; Sharon 
McKnight, winner of the 
Golden Laurel Award; BER¬ 
LIN 1932, winner of the 
cabaret Gold and Theatre 
Guild Awards; Pam Brooks, 
Cable Car Award winner; 
Terry Hutchinson and David 
Reighn, Cabaret Gold Award 
winners for best male enter¬ 
tainers; and Lynda Bergren 
and Terri Cowick, new and 
up and coming female enter¬ 
tainers. 

Hear About 
Health 

“The Gay Life” on KSAN, 
95 FM, will air two major ad¬ 
dresses on Lesbian and Gay 
health care, on Sunday, July 
4, at 6am. 

Morris Kight, of the Gay 
Community Services Center 
in Los Angeles, will discuss 
the history of health-care de¬ 
livery to Lesbian and Gay 
populations. Pat Norman, of 
the San Francisco Depart¬ 
ment of Public Health’s Cen¬ 
ter for Special Problems, will 
talk about the health-care 
needs of Lesbian mothers and 
of Third World Lesbians and 
Gay men. 


The intimacy of Fanny’s 
provides an opportunity for 
new entertainers to test their 
acts and get immediate feed¬ 
back from the audiences 
according to owner Phil Hahn. 
“We’ve seen many entertain¬ 
ers grow at Fanny’s and move 
on to the bigger clubs. We’re 
home to so many and they 
always come back to say 
hello.” Some, like Sharon 
McNight and Ruth Hastings, 
returned in May and June of 
1982 for short special engage¬ 
ments. 

Next to the Gold Award 
plaque for CABARET OF 
THE YEAR, which is now 
proudly exhibited above the 
host station, is a photograph 
of the BERLIN 1932 cast in¬ 
scribed “To our favorite caba¬ 
ret...” 

So what good is sitting 
alone in your room... 


Ego Extension 

Terry Baum’s one-woman 
show, Ego Trip, or I’m Get¬ 
ting My Shit Together and 
Dumping It All On You has 

extended it run at Bethany 
Church through July 17. 

An accomplished storyteller 
and actress, Baum relates 
anecdotes from her own life 
and creates characters based 
on people she has known and 
visions she has had, 


Ego Trip is performed each 
Friday and Saturday at 
8:30pm at 1268 Sanchez. $5 
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TALES OF TESSI TURA 


Too Much, Too Soon 


GEORGE HEYMONT 

One of my favorite cartoons from Christopher Street shows 
two men standing in an apartment decorated in the worst ex¬ 
tremes of faggot baroque, spider plants and Hollywood 
tchochkes. “It’s apartments like this that give us a bad name,” 
moans one man as he surveys the havoc inflicted upon a 
small studio. Although my own office has often been labeled 
as a catastrophe of clutter and cacophony, when it comes to 
producing opera I tend to prefer things lean, crisp and to the 
point. Two recent productions forced their audiences to wade 
through so much shit to get to the crux of the evening that 
one could not help but have severe doubts about the creative 
process at work. Each opera was a rather fragile work which 
was nearly pummelled to death by the design team at work 
And to what end? 


TOO MUCH MSG 

San Francisco’s new pro¬ 
duction of Turandot is a per¬ 
fect case of wretched excess 
in design. Allen Charles 
Klein’s set is based on an in¬ 
teresting premise, and partic¬ 
ularly in Act II, works beauti¬ 
fully. Act I, however, is so 
cluttered with distressing lat¬ 
ticework that I almost mistook 
it for Ponnelle’s Dutchman. 
While Klein’s sets often cap¬ 
ture the element of fantasy 
and fairytale in mythical 
China, too often the visual 
busy-ness gets in the way. 
There’s just too much shmutz 
on the stage to support a 
rather frail opera. 

Puccini’s Turandot de¬ 
pends on excellent choral 
work for its maximum impact. 
The disparity between what 


was happening onstage and 
conductor Myung-Whun 
Chung floundering around in 
the pit caused the music to 
consistently miss its punches 
during the evening. Bliss He¬ 
bert’s direction was strongest 
when working with Ping, 
Pang and Pong. His crowd 
scenes often felt like the 
Macy’s parade in pastel silk 
and black thongs; the inter¬ 
action between his principals 
was stilted and lacked in¬ 
volvement. 

Some of this was, no 
doubt, due to the tenor’s ill¬ 
ness. Backstage reports indi¬ 
cate that Nicola Martinucci 
had a kidneystone attack 
shortly after singing “Nessun 
Dorma.” Linda Kelm’s icy 
princess took a while to warm 
up but in the third act breath¬ 
ed with a robust warmth in 



Looking like a drag queen's fantasy. Princess Turandot (Linda Kelm) 
appeared out of a diuine piece of blown acrylic in San Francisco Opera's pro 
duction of TURANDOT 


j the lower register which indi¬ 
cated a Princess whose glands 
were alive with much more 
than the sound of music. 
What the performance most 
noticeably lacked was passion 
(in one of Puccini’s most 
orgasmically written works). 
Barbara Daniels and Kevin 
Langan walked off with the 
vocal honors as Liu and 
Timur but could not make the 
evening jell despite their siz¬ 
able contributions. 

BOMBS AWAY! 

In Miami, a new opera 
which passionately attempted 
to deal with man’s need for 
survival in the nuclear age 
opened the New World Festi¬ 
val of the Arts with a resound¬ 
ing thud. Robert Ward’s Min¬ 
utes Till Midnight would 
have been revolutionary 15 
years ago as a film for televi¬ 
sion. Daniel Lang’s libretto, 
alas, is a wooden affair de¬ 
spite the important questions 
it raises about the use of nu¬ 
clear power. Ward’s score is 
unabashedly romantic, gush¬ 
ing with idealism and only in 
the second act gaining 
strength as the hero, Emil 
Roszak, confronts the impli¬ 
cations of his discovery in cos¬ 
mic science. Much of the 
opera, however, appeared 
sadly dated with Gunther 
Schneider-Seimssen’s atomic 
energy sets looking more like 
an aging ride in Walt Disney’s 
Tomorrowland. 

Ward did, however, com¬ 
pose one beautiful aria for 
baritone Thomas Stewart 
which made the evening 
worthwhile. But Minutes Till 
Midnight premiered before a 
cynical present day audience 
which became defensive early 
in the evening. Special film 
and video effects seemed sur¬ 
prisingly antiquated as did the 
ballet sequence depicting the 
horrors of nuclear war. 

What hurt Ward’s opera 
most was the dramatic time 
and momentum lost by being 
performed on a proscenium 
stage. The downtime for each 
set change forced the realiza¬ 
tion that the opera was, per¬ 
haps. written for the wrong 
performing medium and 
should have been created for 
film. Evelyn Lear and Claudia 
Cummings etched sensitive 
portraits of Roszak’s wife and 
his lab assistant, Julie Day. 
The political and military 
forces in the White House 
bordered on the comical (al¬ 
though one member of the 
audience sadly confessed that 
people in Washington do talk 
and act that way). 

The result was an evening 
sunk by overproduction to 
cover a very frail story struc¬ 
ture. Despite the huge invest¬ 
ment of time and talent one 
couldn’t help but wonder if 
the composer had long since 
lost touch with modern times 
or if the Miami Festival itself 
was doomed to begin with a 
stillborn birth. ■ 


BOOK RACK 


Book Reviews by Frank J. Howell 

Finding! Our Gay Forebears 

Historical Perspectives on Homosexuality 

Compiled and Edited by S. J. Licata 
and Robert P. Petersen 
Vol. 6, Nos. 1/2,1980/81 
Haworth Press and Stein & Day; $18.95 

“For nearly a century homosexuality has been investi¬ 
gated by social scientists but has received almost no at¬ 
tention from historians. Professional researchers in hi¬ 
story have neglected, overlooked, or been afraid to ex¬ 
amine homosexuality because of the stigma . . . This 
stigma has also inhibited the preservation of sources . . . 
Families of famous people often destroy or restrict the 
use of documents that refer to an ancestor’s sexual orien¬ 
tation. Archives and libraries hide or, even worse, throw 
away as worthless materials that might shed some light 
... As a result, histories dealing with homosexuality 
have been rare.” 


Recently I witnessed Alan 
Berube (of the San Francisco 
Lesbian and Gay History 
Project) demonstrate how in¬ 
spiring it is to behold the work 
of Gay historians. The multi- 
media presentation graphical¬ 
ly demonstrated the joys and 
perils of Gay men and wo¬ 
men in the Armed Forces in 
World War II. Many little 
known facets of this unique 
situation were unearthed 
about huge groups of same- 
sex people being herded to¬ 
gether for the first time. The 
consequences of these actions 
were also clearly emerging. 
Undreamed-of intimacies be¬ 
came possible. We could feel 
a silent unity unfold in the 
group watching the slides and 
sounds. We felt like reaching 
out to those silent comrades 

(Continued on next page) 


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(Continued from previous page) 

staring out at us from the nos¬ 
talgic canyon of nearly forty 
years. A knowledge of our 
own story created a warmth 
and sense of caring to grow. 
Such an event is displeasing 
to the Moral Majority. They 
want the ignorance and si¬ 
lence about our Gay past to 
be maintained. 

The Journal of Homosexu¬ 
ality has gathered together a 
scholarly collection of re¬ 
search and opinion about the 
task of the scholar who seeks 
to cast light on previous lives. 
Jonathan Katz and John Bos¬ 
well have both demonstrated 
what can be done when the 
fires of imagination are spray¬ 
ed onto the dying embers of 
the past. We can only sample 
what is presented in this latest 
publication. 

Louis Crompton chal¬ 
lenges the myth that Lesbians 
nave rarely been subject to 
severe discipline when he ex¬ 
amines capital punishment 
laws from 1270-1791. An¬ 
other article investigates “A 
Lesbian Execution in Ger¬ 
many. 1721 - The Trial Rec¬ 
ords.” 

Martin Duberman has ex¬ 
perienced first-hand the diffi¬ 
culty a historian encounters 
when he is dealing with family 
documents that contain 


homosexual material. He 
found that research librarians 
don’t always cooperate. The 
family name must be protect¬ 
ed. He became fascinated 
with two letters written by two 
young men who were discov¬ 
ering that other forms of love 
existed 

Jeffrey Weeks explores the 
problems of prospects of male 
prostitution in England at the 
turn of the century and there 
are two articles on the Nazi 
persecution of Gays in con¬ 
centration camps. 

Salvatore Licata concludes 
the main articles with a history 
of the Gay movement in the 
United States. He relates the 
sad chronicle of Henry Ger¬ 
ber. who attempted to organ¬ 
ize the Society for Human 
Rights in Illinois in the 1920’s. 
This was the first Gay civil 
rights group in the country. 
As a reward for Jjis trouble he 
lost his job and he received no 
support from fellow Gays. 
Only ten people joined the 
organization. 

This book is a treasure that 
stakes out another landmark 
in the effort to reconstruct 
Gay history. There is a vast 
amount of literature lying out 
there in the dark waiting to be 
disclosed for future genera¬ 
tions. ■ 

Frank J. Howell 


Gay Run * *82 

GayRun ’82, the gay-spon¬ 
sored, national footrace, will 
be held Sunday, July 25 in 
San Francisco’s Golden Gate 
Park. 

The third annual 5K and 
lOKm races are cosponsored 
by The Advocate, the nation¬ 
al Gay newsmagazine, and 

Frontrunners, 

As in past years, merchan¬ 
dise prizes will be awarded 
and all finishers will receive 
ribbons. A portion of the pro¬ 
ceeds will be donated to the 
Golden Gate Park Mainten¬ 
ance Fund. 

“We are planning for an ex¬ 
citing and well-run event,” 
said Race Director Bob 
Plantz, a veteran Frontrunner, 
“and I’m hoping we can see 
some even faster times turned 
in this year.” Times for last 
year’s 10K event were 32:46 
and 38:20 in the male and 
female divisions respectively. 

Entry blanks appear in cur¬ 
rent issues of The Advocate. 
To receive an entry blank by 
mail, send a stamped, self- 
addressed envelope to 
GayRun ’82, P.O. Box 5847, 
San Mateo, CA 94402. For 
further information, call Scott 
Anderson, Publicity Director 
at (415) 573-7100. 


GAY OLYMPIC GAMES 


UPDATE ’82 OLYMPICS 


The Pre-Olympic Games 


TOM WADDELL. M.D. 

Last Friday evening at the Civic Center, I experienced 
one of the most satisfying evenings I can recall. The Golden 
Gate Performing Arts had their Fourth Annual Gay Musical 
Celebration. Aryl it was a celebration, a real community 
celebration — the singing, the band, the self-evident hu¬ 
mor, the imagination, and the pizazz. 

What I appreciated as much as the GGPA’s extraordinary 
showmanship was their generosity and thoughtfulness to 
give such a magnificent salute to the Gay Olympic Games. 
They have suddenly made the Games seem very real. 
Thank you for making us a part of your celebration. We are 
honored that you’ll be part of ours. 

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 

Get ready for some thrills, sports fans, because the San 
Francisco Gay Olympic Men’s and Women’s Basketball 
teams will soon take to the court and give you an example of 
what your local favorites’ capabilities are. They WILL be 
contenders for the Olympic crown. On Saturday, July 24, at 
Kezar Pavilion there will be a double header that will lift you 
off your seats. 

First the Women’s team will play against the Women’s 
Deputy Sheriffs Department. Half-time entertainment will 
be provided by Bruno Blue’s Brothers, a 6-piece combo that 
is an authentic jail-house band; a special gymnastic exhibi¬ 
tion; and the Gay Olympic Games Flag,Corps under the di¬ 
rection of Chula Camp. 

The second game will be the Men’s team against the Sher¬ 
iff’s Department, and I understand they have a 6'11" for¬ 
mer All-American from U.S.F. They may very well be a 
preview of the Gay Olympic Games final; your S.F. team is 
highly rated. 

Proceeds from the game will benefit all the S.F. Gay 
Olympic Teams in purchasing their uniforms and equip¬ 
ment. A portion will go to the Sheriff’s Department chari¬ 
ties. This is the kind of cooperative and integrated event 
we’ve been waiting for. It’s a great opportunity, once again, 
to demonstrate what a contributory community we are. And 
we must applaud the Sheriff’s Department for their enlight¬ 
ened attitude towards the Gay community and particularly 
in the sensitive area of organized sport with all its homo- 
phobic mythology. 

Tickets will go on sale in a few days and should go quickly 
at $5. In a future column I will give you the specs on all the 
players. 

Thanks to Sharon McNight, the Furies, and our male and 
female Gay Olympic Physique contestants for a fun-filled 
benefit at the Women’s Building last Thursday night. The 
event was conceived and executed by board members Sara 
Lewinstein, Chris Puccinelli, and Hydie Downard. 

And thanks to Alan Hall, J.D. Larson, and Jim Scara- 
muzzino who have just opened P O Plus at 584 Castro St. 
They have licensed post office services and are providing 
free mail receiving for visiting athletes. 

BAY AREA REPORTER JULY I, 1982 PAGE 28 


Snow Peas Restaurant on 18th St. have generously of¬ 
fered reduced rate coupons for visiting athletes. They want 
to show the competitors what San Francisco hospitality is all 
about. 

If you enjoy meeting people, try our airport! We need 
drivers with vans and cars to meet and greet visiting athletes 
arriving by plane. It’s more than a friendly gesture; it’s the 
touch that sets the feeling for the Games. 

Mark Brown informs me that we now have nine countries 
registered, and we have not yet received New Zealand or 
Australia, which are en route. Looks like our translators will 
be busy after all. We’ve heard from Germany, France, Is¬ 
rael, Northern Ireland, Ireland, England, Canada, Belgium, 
and of course, the United States. 

Cities in the U.S.A. so far are: San Francisco, Minne¬ 
apolis, Mountain View, East Palo Alto, Belmont, San Jose, 
San Leandro, Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Bruno, La¬ 
fayette (Louisiana), Palm Springs, San Pedro, Modesto, 
Poison (Montana), Berkeley, Nipomo, Aptos, Columbus 
(Ohio), Miami Shores (Florida), Ft. Lauderdale, Rochester 
(N.Y.), Honeydew, Somerville (Mass.), Martinez, Oakland, 
Seattle, Santa Cruz, San Diego, Chicago, Houston, Goleta, 
Sonoma, Washington (D.C.), Mill Valley, Redwood City, 
Baltimore, San Antonio, New York City. 

So, with still most of the registrants still coming in, we 
have 51 cities, 14 states, and 9 countries. Zippidy-do-dah! 


Flare Up! 

The Gay Olympic Torch 
Run has been meeting with 
enthusiastic response. Ac¬ 
companying runners bearing 
torches between cities, van 
driver John Robertson said, 
“I’ve been extremely well re¬ 
ceived. The demand for regis¬ 
tration forms and ticket re¬ 
quests is overwhelming.” 

Olympic organizer Tom 
Waddell told the B.A.R. these 
requests are pouring into the 
Olympic office, from Philadel¬ 
phia, Washington (D.C.), and 
Pittsburgh, as the Torch van 
passes through. 

Each city has held fundrais¬ 
ing events, making donations 
from the gate receipts to the 
Torch Run and their own 
Olympic teams. Robertson 
sells T-shirts and pins to help 
keep the van in motion. 


Welcome to our newest sponsor this week, The Trench. 
Below is the complete list. . . thank you all. 

And! Let me not forget to thank those cash winners at our 
“Reverse Raffle” who donated immediately back to the 
Games: Harriman Thatcher ($100), Michael Kent ($100), 
Russ Glenn ($100), Peggy Forster ($300), Joe Urban 
($200), and Sutter’s Mill for buying a free round of drinks for 
the entire house. ■ 


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Remy’s500Q. Challenge Cup, Maud’s/AnwKa’s,Twin 
Peaks, National Collection Agency, Castro Station, 
White Swallow, Hibernia/Castro, Star Pharmacy, 
Sausage Factory, 1808 Club. Ambush, Pafk Bowl, Gil- 
Riore’s, Work Wonders, Norse Cove, Coits of S.F./Sttt- 
teKsyMHI, The Village, Midnight Sun, Detiixe, Body 
Center, Hairlift«rs,GvE.H. Associates, James W. Burge, 
Peter J. Olsen D.D.S., Welcome Home, Leather.For- 
ever. Conceptual Entertainment, Good Provider, M»by 
Dick, Foggy City Squares, Great Outdoor Adventures-; 
G.C. Bridge Tournament, The Mint, Acme Brewing Co, 
Atlas Savings & Loan, The *P.S., Hot’N* Hunky, Twriflfe 
Graphics, and Golden Gate Business 
dation; Lawrence A. Wilson, Atty.; Jack Campbell; The 
Caldron; Honcho Magazine; Mandate Magazine; Casa 
de Cristal; Pride Foundation; Church Street Station; 
Robert Applebee; All American Boy; The Pendulum; 
Trinity Place; Cable Car Awards; Rosenberg’s Deli and 
Foods, the Jaguar Book Store, After Dark Magazine, 
Women’s Training Center, Pat and Rich McCarles, 
William G. Carey, Barry Goodwin/Darryl Billiu, Le 
Domino, The York Hotel, The End Up, California Sur¬ 
plus; the Pro Shop; Rawhide; The Sisters of Perpetual 
Indulgence; P O Plus; Jo Dee’s; The American Postcard 
Co., Inc.; Snow Peas Restaurant; Kokpit; and Gramo¬ 
phone. 


Women’s Olympic 
Basketball 

The San Francisco Wo¬ 
men’s Basketball team of the 
Gay Olympics wishes to 
thank all of the talented wo¬ 
men who participated in their 
tryouts, which were recently 
completed. In addition, we 
congratulate the fine coach 
and athletes who will repre¬ 
sent San Francisco in this 
sport during the Gay Olympic 
Games. 

Cooperation is the key in 
the fast and exciting game of 
Women’s Basketball. Thus, 
we stress cooperation on and 
off the court among this 
group of women from diverse 
ethnic, economic, and social 
backgrounds. Cooperation in 
the community is also essen¬ 
tial for our economic survival 
and ultimate success in the 
Games. Fundraising activities 
have been planned through¬ 
out the next two months, and 
the team needs community 
support. If you can donate 
time or funds please contact 
Sue after 6 pm at 282-4613 
or D. at 648-8056 during 
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When all the strikes and 
spares were counted, these 
bowlers had 200+ games: 
Don Latt (215), Jeff Lampert 
(202), Tim Hagerman (202). 
Rod Hilacion (213), and 
Lowry Calhoun (204). 

Bowlers with 500+ series 
included: Don Latt (552), 
Tim Hagerman (535), Les 
Gundel (574), John Brown 
(514), Rod Hilacion (568). 
and Larry Reh (526). 

In the team matchups: An¬ 
other Country took two from 
the Foghorn. Bottoms-Up 
swept the Pilsner III three 
games to none. The Eagle 
Creek Saloon took two from 
the gang from Stagecoach 
Western Wear and Team 
Number Five held Trax to a 
single game out.of three. The 
San Francisco Fixers were 
victorious over Pilsner II 
(2-0). Maintain and The 
Mint each strengthened their 
positions in the league stand¬ 
ings by winning all three 
games from their opponents 
Pendulum and Pilsner I. 
respectively. 

Best of luck to all of the 
teams in the remaining weeks 
of this season. And remem¬ 
ber, it’s not too early to begin 
thinking about forming a team 
for the fall season. To register 
just call Park Bowl and leave 
your name and number for 
Mai Garcia or stop by and see 
him personally any Monday 
or Wednesday evening. 

Happy Independence Day 
to all . . . See you after 
Seattle! ■ 


Latino Salute 


Esta Noche, San Francis¬ 
co’s first and only Latino Gay 
bar, celebrates the 4th of July 
with Latin Red, White and 
Blue, A Star-Spangled Vari¬ 
ety Show featuring Mexican 
recording artist Fidel Ron- 
quillo, “New Song’’ stylist 
Eduardo Parra, Flamenco 
dancer extraordinaire Daniel 
Genera, and several other tal¬ 
ented Bay Area Gay Latino 
artists. Show times are 10pm 
and midnight, Sunday, July 
4. at Esta Noche, 3079 16th 
Street, San Francisco. Admis¬ 
sion is $3. 


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Money! That’s what the 
GSL needs to hold the Gay 
Softball World Series this 
year. To date we have 
$12,000 in our series account 
and must raise $20,000 in the 
next nine weeks to pull this off 
in San Francisco style. If you 
would like to contribute, 
please forward donations to: 
G.S.W.S. VI, 620 Belvedere, 
San Francisco, CA 94117. 

We will be out and about at 
the street fairs selling our 
great looking T-shirts and 
pins, so look them over when 
you spot us. On Friday, Au¬ 
gust 6, we will be holding the 


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Switchhitters Ball at the Cali¬ 
fornia Club on Clay. Only 
GSL members may enter this 
sure to be fun-filled fundrais¬ 
er. If you haven’t guessed, it’s 
a takeoff on the Closet Ball. 
All contestants will appear in 
their softball uniforms and 
then reappear in some sort of 
drag (camp or otherwise). 
Enthusiasm is already high for 
this one. The only other 
major fundraiser set is sure to 
raise some eyebrows. It will 
be announced here in the 
next issue of B.A.R. 

Have a happy and safe 
4th of July. ■ 


The "Another Country" team took two games in the mid-season position 
round. (Photo: Rink) 


When this article appears, 
five men (myself included) 
from the two combined 
Tavern Guild Leagues will be 
in Seattle, Washington, for 
the July 4th Weekend and 
Seattle’s International Gay 
Bowlers Organization 
Independence Day Classic 
bowling tournament. This 
marks the first time that San 
Francisco has entered a team 
in this Gay version of the 
bowlers tour and we’ll also be 
competing in the singles and 
doubles events as well. I’ll 
give a report when we get 
back. In the meantime, hold 
good thoughts that we’ll bring 
back our city’s first Gay bowl¬ 
ing titles. 


Naturally, during this jovial 
contest, the bar services at 
Park Bowl will be expanded 
to accommodate those of you 
who are partial to the spirits 
and occasionally feel a com¬ 
pulsion to propose a toast or 
two ... or three ... or more. 

Tickets are available for a 
$4 donation in advance, or a 
$5 donation at the door. 
They can be obtained from 
members of the San Francis¬ 
co Olympic Bowling Teams or 
at Headlines on Polk or Cas¬ 
tro Streets. As only a limited 
number of tickets will be avail¬ 
able, hesitation could mean 
deprivation. 

Seating is nonreserved and 


The end of June marks the 
mid-point of the season for 
the Monday night bowlers 
and the mid-point of the sea¬ 
son means a position round. 
There was lots of jockeying 
for status going on the other 
night at Park Bowl and the 
competition laughed and 
cursed together at games won 
and games lost. As usual 
when there is a position 
round in league play, the ten¬ 
sion was much in evidence 
and the pressure was on! In a 
position round each team is 
matched against the team 
which is immediately above 
them in the league standings. 
In most cases (and particular¬ 
ly in this league where a very 


you know what that means: 
the very person may be sitting 
in front of you whom you 
know should be sitting behind 
you! Hence, an early arrival 
could prove more than 
prudent. 

Due to less than ideal park¬ 
ing room in the Haight area, 
ample parking will be avail¬ 
able for a moderate fee at 
Kezar Pavilion, one block 
from Park Bowl off Stanyan. 

In closing, a tiny piece of 
advice: if you miss this one, 
you will have missed more 
than a delightful fun-filled 
evening, you will have missed 
a HAPPENING! ■ 


The Community Softball League marching down Market Street in the Gay 
Parade. (Photo: V. Camara) 


A Night of Celebrity Bowling 


by Jerry R. De Young 

On the evening of July 31, 
at precisely 8pm, a well- 
known celebrity will roll the 
first ball down an alley at Park 
Bowl on Haight and Stanyan 
Streets. This strike will be the 
signal for the festive competi¬ 
tion to commence between 
an as yet undetermined num¬ 
ber of celebrities and the San 
Francisco Olympic Bowling 
Teams. 

The Women’s Olympic 
Team, the Men’s Olympic 
Team, and a mixed team of 5 
individual Olympic bowlers 
will each bowl a different five- 
person team of celebrities. 
Two sets of games will be 
bowled, with the opposing 
teams alternating. 

The festivities will last ap¬ 


proximately 2Vi hours, end¬ 
ing at 10:30pm. For those of 
you whose adrenaline may 
have started pumping during 
the celebrity competition, 
however, Park Bowl will re¬ 
main open until lam. You 
can prove then, not only to 
yourself but also to the re¬ 
maining spectators, that you 
can easily surpass any high 
scores achieved earlier in the 
evening. 

If self-fulfillment is not 
enough, an added incentive 
to stick around is that all the 
money which the bowling 
portion of Park Bowl takes in 
after the Celebrity Bowling 
has ended will be donated to 
the Olympic Team. 


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Reaction to the photo¬ 
graphs of San Francisco pho¬ 
tographer Fisher Ross has al¬ 
ways been favorable. It was 
his series of erotic (yet without 
nudity) postcards in 1980 that 
precipitated the current mania 
for the form. Yet many peo¬ 
ple found his 1982 Body by 
Fisher Calendar tame. 
Requests came flying for 


“Let Them Eat Dick” 

New Photographs by Fisher Ross 


raunchier shots. 

In his first showing in five 
years, opening today at Moby 
Dick, Mr. Ross has complied 
with his fans’ wishes. “Let 
them eat dick,” the former 
mailman told the B.A.R. The 
new show consists largely of 
male nudes, some surprising¬ 
ly hardcore for an artist who 


admitted to near prudery. 

“My photography first got 
underway in 1977,” he said, 
“but it took me years to pho¬ 
tograph a cock and longer to 
do an erection. My earlier 
stuff, even with groping, was 
clothed. It was considered 
shocking when it first came 
out, but now it’s passe.” 


The new photographs 
could hardly be considered 
passe, and if the show is suc¬ 
cessful Ross plans to take it on 
the road. “Of course I like 
sales,” he admitted, “but I 
judge success in terms of 
people’s reactions, good or 
bad. I like to shock them,” he 
slyly confided, “but most of all 


I want to represent my life¬ 
style and be — how shall I say 
— artistically stimulating.” 

That lifestyle appears quite 
stimulating, thank you, and 
the photographs will be on 
display at Moby Dick through 
August 11, with the artist in 
attendance at the opening, 
July 1, from 6 to 9pm. 




































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Due to popular demand and S.R.O. business, Lori 
Shannon and Lynda Bergren will repeat their evening of 
comedy-and-song, titled BACK Together Again for 
the Very First Time, on Tuesday, July 6, at 8pm in The 
Plush Room of the Hotel York. For reservations call 885- 
6800. 

The show, first performed last month at The Plush 
Room, is described by S.F. Examiner music critic Philip 
Elwood as “a truly fine, delightful presentation . . . thor¬ 
oughly entertaining.” 


Colt Studios' "Olympus " magazine, reserved for the god like, has devoted 
an entire issue to the decidedly mature Nick Chase 


Sweet Lips is ill and recuperating at Kaiser Hospital. 
Friends can offer cheer to Richard Walters by phone 
(929-4000, Room 71 IB) or by greeting card (2425 
Geary Blvd., S.F. 94115). Hurry back , Lips - we miss 
the dish! 


You Can *4 Feel 
Chronology 


KARR 


PORN CORNER 


In a brief article titled “Gay 
Periodicals Never Show Pic¬ 
tures of Anyone Over Thirty” 
which appeared in the Gay 
Parade program, Jordan Lee 
writes about some of the trials 
of being a mature Gay. Mr. 
Lee identifies himself as being 
in his 50’s, and his complaints 
are totally understandable. 

“The inference is obvious,” 
- Lee writes. “To be accepted I 
should look like someone in 
Drummer or Blueboy.” And 
Mr. Lee doesn’t simply mean 
handsome, butch or pretty. 
He means, in the immortal 
answer posed by A Chorus 
Line’s aging Shiela when she 
was asked what she wanted 
to be when she grew up: 
“Young.” 

The ageism of Gay life is 
well known. Yet even while 
pointing it out and complain¬ 
ing about it, Mr. Lee provides 
the fact that shows Gay age¬ 
ism lessening. “The chrono¬ 
logical demographics in this 
country are shifting. In about 
10 or 15 years this will no 
longer be exclusively a nation 
of young people. In the long 
run,” he concludes, “time is 
on my side.” 

That change in demo¬ 
graphics is already visible on 
the screens of our porno the¬ 
atres, in the Gay community’s 
attention to “Daddies” and in 
magazines like the aforemen¬ 
tioned Drummer , which re¬ 
cently ran a photo spread on 
mature men. On our screens 
we see the successful, adulat¬ 
ed films of both Wakefield 
Poole and the Gage Brothers 
using large numbers of over- 

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and enjoy the sun. Before you go out to get that golden tan, 
you will want to consider the following guidelines provided 
by the California Medical Association: 

1. Avoid overexposure, since this will lead to sunburn 
and hasten the aging process of your skin. Start your expo¬ 
sure gradually, and be most cautious between 10am and 
2 pm (standard time) since this is when the ultraviolet rays 
(sunburning rays) are most potent. 

2. Sunscreens containing PABA (para-aminobenzoic 
acid) are the most effective in preventing sunburn. It is a 
good idea to re-apply every two hours, or right after swim¬ 
ming. (Be aware that these particular lotions will stain 
clothing.) 

3. Many commonly prescribed drugs will make you 
phototoxic (i.e. extremely susceptible to sunburn). Among 
these are antidepressants, barbiturates, drugs for diabetes, 
antihistamines, tranquilizers, sulfa drugs, tetracyclines and 
diuretics. So, be sure to ask your doctor whether the drug 
being prescribed to you can make you phototoxic. 

4. If you do get sunburned, the safest treatment is the 
application of cold compresses to the painful area. Although 
there are a number of soothing ointments available, many 
doctors do not encourage their use because of the possibility 
of developing allergic reactions. 

5. If you sunburn so severely that skin blisters form, it is 
wise to check with your doctor for proper care. You may be 
highly sensitive to sunburn for many months. If you chron¬ 
ically get sunburned, even mildly, your skin will develop a 
premature wrinkled and leathery appearance. Chronic sun¬ 
burn may increase the likelihood of developing skin cancer. 

6. The application of oils such as baby oil or olive oil will 
increase the damage from the ultraviolet rays rather than 
prevent it. 

7. Remember that ultraviolet rays can do their damage on 
bright hot days and on cloudy days. 

There is no doubt that an active outdoor life is conducive 
to good health. The above mentioned precautions against 
sunburn will assist you in enjoying the warm days ahead to 
their fullest. ■ 


PORN CORNER 

(Continued from Page 31) 

30 actors. And how about the 
continuing success of Richard 
Locke and Casey Donovan? 

The sizable amount of Gays 
who came out in the 70’s are 
making their tastes — and 
buying power — known. As 
that generation ages the com¬ 
monly held ideas about aged 
Gays will change. This group, 
now in their 30’s to early 40’s, 


doesn’t think of themselves as 
older and doesn’t act older. 
And they won’t when they 
are 40 and 50. Ageism will 
thus be lessened from within, 
as the first sizable group of 
countable Gays itself ages. 

Gays, in the forefront in so 
many socio- and politic ways, 
will shortly be proving that old 
does not necessarily mean 
out of date or out of commis¬ 
sion. ■ 

Karr 


Recent attention to maturity is found in the embrace of well past juvenile 
Will Seagers and the porno screen's Red Hot Daddy, Richard Locke. Casey 
Donovan, whose latest pic appears in the Screening Room ad. hovers near 
the 40 year mark. 


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